Lightsey v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2006
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mascarenas v. Jaramillo · First Pennsylvania Mortgage Trust v. Dorchester Savings Bank · Hernandez v. Mead Foods, Inc. · Pitek v. McGuire · Jacobs v. Thomas
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.
“contributed significant time, effort, and materials”
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.