Lessow v. Sherry’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2013
1 district · 19 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 Horvath v. Tontini · Mears v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Budaj v. Connecticut Co. · Mlynar v. A. H. Merriman & Sons, Inc. · Bjorkman v. Town of Newington
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e early recognized the admissibility of the government weather bureau reports as evidence of conditions at or near the location in question, holding that any difference between the location and the point where the observations were taken went to the weight rather than the admissibility of such evidence”
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.