Rourk v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

cited by 29 later decisions

states following

January 2015

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Little v. All Phoenix South Community Mental Health Center, Inc. (1995), 1999 UT App 303 - U.P.C., Inc. v. R.O.A. General, Inc. (1999)

2 federal appellate · 25 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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove · Baxter v. Federal Communications Commission · Ontiveros v. Borak · Doe ex rel. Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services · Robertson v. Sixpence Inns of America, Inc.

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Upon an appeal from a final judgment, the supreme court shall review any intermediate orders involving the merits of the action and necessarily affecting the judgment, and all orders and rulings assigned as error, whether a motion for new trial was made or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Wilson
“A directed verdict is proper if reasonable minds could not differ on the inferences or conclusions that could be drawn from the evidence, and the party for whom it is granted is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Little v. ALL PHOENIX S. COM. MENT. HLTH.
“[W]hen an appeal is taken from a final judgment, `[t]here is no requirement that the notice designate intermediate orders which are to be raised as issues on appeal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 1999 UT App 303 - U.P.C., Inc. v. R.O.A. General, Inc.

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.