Pockette v. LaDuke’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 1986
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gerald Park Improvement Assn. v. Bini · Gerdel v. Gerdel · Suitor v. Suitor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The responsibility for guaranteeing that a properly constituted court is entertaining a particular suit clearly falls upon the presiding judge. He cannot shift his responsibility to the parties, their attorneys or the assistant judges.”
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.