Potwin v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably In Re Fuller (1977), Montgomery v. Branon (1968)
38 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 Little v. Little · deNEERGAARD v. Dillingham · First Nat. Bank of St. Johnsbury v. Laperle · Petition of New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Neverett v. Towne
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plainly express the rejection of affirmative issues not proved-. A doubt on the part of this Court as to whether or not the trial court had considered such an issue at all in reaching its result can generate a remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strong v. Strong“Some evidence, because it is not only critically relevant, but also is uncontroverted and of undeniable credibility, requires recognition in findings as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.