Wolfe v. Yudichak’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably In Re JR (1989), In re J.R. (1989)
35 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 Philbrook v. Glodgett · New England Power Company v. Town of Barnet · Paquette v. Paquette · State v. Tierney · Hill v. Conway
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`not ... render the act ineffective or lead to irrational consequences.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JR“literal and plain meaning of the language of the statute”
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.