Falk v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Tomczuk v. Alvarez (1981), Pagano v. Ippoliti (1998)
59 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 Malone v. Steinberg · Meglio v. Comeau · Krupa v. Farmington River Power Co. · Leahey v. Heasley · Berkeley v. Berkeley
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any such case may at any time be entered in the docket as a jury case by the clerk, upon written consent of all parties or by order of the court .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That determination by the court had the same effect as the granting of a motion to place the case on the docket would have had in the first instance . . . For the court to have required a specific motion to place the case on the jury docket would have been inappropriate. The case was already there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“made to the clerk within thirty days after the return day”
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.