Lane v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Gardner (1998), Marckstadt v. Lockheed Martin Corp. (2009)
28 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 Sobin v. United States · Brooks v. Parkerson · Vaughn v. United Nuclear Corp. · Rhinehart v. Nowlin · Bardacke v. Dunigan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who pauses to sign a document can be expected to give more thought to the consequences of consent than one who gives consent in a less formal setting”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.