Hand v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Packard v. Whitten (1971), In Re Spring Valley Development (1973)
31 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 & Casualty Co. v. Bodwell Granite Co. · Foley v. H. F. Farnham Co. · Garland · Cheney v. Richards · Pillsbury v. Brown
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is . . implied [from the Law Court’s jurisdictional grant] that the questions of law involved must be of sufficient importance or doubt to justify reporting the same. Otherwise, any case could be reported to the Law Court for decision, because the decision of every case involves a question of law and its application to the existing facts.” (Emphasis in original) 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Placzek““(b) Report on Agreed Facts. The court may, upon request of all parties appearing, report any action to the Law Court for determination where there is agreement as to all material facts, if it is of the opinion that any question of law is involved of sufficient importance or doubt to justify the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inconsistent with the purposes for which . . . [the Law Court] was established and the duties and powers with which it has been invested by statute”, (p. 468 of 148 Me., p. 815 of 95 A.2d.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foley
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.