Snow v. Calise’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Wilson (1986), Bunche v. Bunche (1980)
114 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 Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Pizzola v. Planning & Zoning Commission · A. Sangivanni & Sons v. F. M. Floryan & Co. · National Broadcasting Co. v. Rose
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the policy of the law to bring about a trial on the merits of a dispute whenever possible and to secure for the litigant his day in court.”
17 later decisions 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.