Rathkopf v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969), Batick v. Seymour (1982)
2 district · 145 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 Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. United States · Engl v. Ætna Life Ins. · General Investment Co. v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co. · Richard v. Credit Suisse · Norwood Morris Plan Co. v. McCarthy
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his would require proof of the lack of a legally organized court or tribunal; lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter, the parties, or both; or want of power to grant the relief contained in the judgment.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a method of resolving litigation when pleadings, affidavits, and any other proof submitted show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Practice Book 380.”
2 later decisions 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.