Gosselin v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Sestito v. City of Groton (1979), Frankovitch v. Burton (1981)
2 district · 61 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 Sigler v. Losieau · Dumond v. Denehy · Ardoline v. Keegan · Tough v. Ives · Sears v. Curtis
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The charge herein, while it might have been more complete, sufficiently instructed the jury on the law in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The degree to which reference to the evidence may be called for lies largely in the discretion of the court.”
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.