Sagar v. Warren Selectboard’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably MacDonough-Webster Lodge No. 26 v. Wells (2003), In Re Appeal of Department of Buildings & General Services (2003)
2 district · 32 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 In Re Margaret Susan P. · Robes v. Town of Hartford · In Re PS · In re P.S. · Vermont State Employees' Ass'n v. Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“its subject matter, the effect and consequences, and the reason and spirit of the law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Gorman
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.