Geier v. Laughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1985
3 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 Bogorad v. Schwarz
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * We cannot weigh the evidence. Our review of the evidence is limited to determining whether it furnished substantial support for the trial court’s finding. Here the parties squarely differed as to the terms of their agreement and as to many things that occurred thereafter. The issue was strictly factual. * * *” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Savage v. Grajek
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.