Lawrence v. Pelletier’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
April 2007
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Darling v. Ennis · Community Feed Store, Inc. v. Northeastern Culvert Corp. · A. Brown, Inc. v. Vermont Justin Corp. · Traiman v. Rappaport · Burr v. Burr
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accorded to the exclusive determination of the trier of fact”
3 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.