Winter v. Unaitis’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2018
10 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 Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Best v. District of Columbia · Lewis v. John Crane & Sons · Custer v. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Carr v. Merrimack Farmers Exchange, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is the usual custom to do so, an opening statement is ordinarily intended to do no more than to inform the jury in a general way of the nature of the action, and defense, so that they may better be prepared to understand the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. Chenoweth
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.