Lanphere v. Beede’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Bull v. Pinkham Engineering Assocs., Inc. (2000), Fitzgerald v. Congleton (1990)
56 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 Monti v. Town of Northfield · Chittenden Trust Co. v. Maryanski · Paradis v. Kirby · Schwartz v. Town of Norwich · Sanville v. Williams
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contentions not raised or fairly presented to the trial court are not preserved for appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.