White v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1982
14 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 Jordan v. Portland Coach Co. · Esponette v. Wiseman · Bradford v. Davis · Greaves v. Houlton Water Co. · Fernald v. French
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rules of Court are designed primarily to implement procedural statutes, discourage procrastination on the part of litigants and their counsel, and provide a smooth and orderly flow of litigation. They are not to be so interpreted as arbitrarily to destroy rights of appeal and review.” White v. Schofield, 153 Me. 79, 83 ; 134 A. (2nd) 755, 757.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gregory v. James
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.