Linley v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
199 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Page v. Clark (1979), M.D.C./Wood, Inc. v. Mortimer (1994)
199 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 Whatley v. Wood · Brewer v. Williams · Briano v. Rubio · 28 Colo. App. 1 - Conner v. Steel, Inc. · Howse v. Crumb
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sole inquiry of the Court of Appeals regarding the fact issue should have been whether there was sufficient evidence in the record to sustain the trial court’s findings even though it was possible for reasonable men to arrive at different conclusions based on the same facts.” (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.