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In Re Wheelock’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In Re Preseault (1972), State v. Madison (1995)

26 state decisions

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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 Crawford v. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company · Petition of Central Vermont Public Service Corp. · State v. Mecier · Whitton v. Scott · Massucco v. VERMONT COLLEGE CORPORATION

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he findings of the referee and the Board “are to be affirmed if supported by credible evidence, even in the presence of substantial evidence to the contrary.” . . . The test to be applied is whether the evidence in an employment security appeal is adequate to support the findings — whether the record contains “ ‘any credible evidence fairly and reasonably supporting’ ” those findings.”
    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.