Holt v. Wissinger’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969), Kellems v. Brown (1972)
82 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 E. M. Loew's Enterprises, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees · Murphy, Inc. v. Town of Westport · Connecticut Savings Bank v. First National Bank & Trust Co. · Kamerman v. Leroy · Brainard v. Town of West Hartford
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o enjoin the improvement of the extension would be violative of a fundamental principle that equity will not interfere where the legal right is doubtful.”
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.