MacK v. Perzanowski’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Stepney (1983), Doe v. Yale University (2000)
47 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 Panaroni v. Johnson · Monahan v. Montgomery · Borsoi v. Sparico · Pratt, Read & Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Snow v. Allen
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of a proper jury charge is whether it fairly presents the case to the jury, in such a way that injustice was not done under the rules of law to the legal rights of either litigant. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A proper jury charge must be correct in law, adapted to the issues and ample for the guidance of the jury. . . .”
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.