Piper v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably P I Enterprises, Inc. v. Cataldo (1972), Beck v. Town of Raymond (1978)
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Tremarco Corporation v. Garzio · Sundeen v. Rogers · Town of Deering Ex Rel. Bittenbender v. Tibbetts · State v. Paille · State v. George C. Stafford & Sons, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he care, protection, preservation and use of the public cemeteries, parks, commons, libraries and other public institutions of the town.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.