Sharkiewicz v. Lepone’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2003
4 district · 18 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 Glotzer v. Keyes · Patalano v. Chabot · State of Connecticut v. Courtsol · Crosson v. Lion Oil Refining Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abandonment in its general sense is the intentional relinquishment of a known right. . . . To constitute an abandonment there must be an intention to abandon or relinquish accompanied by some act or omission to act by which such an intention is manifested.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Abandonment in its general sense is the intentional relinquishment of a known right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This is so when its possession is voluntarily forsaken by the owner.”
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.