Wilkinson v. Guarino’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Scannell v. Ed. Ferreirinha & Irmao, Lda. (1987), 20 Mass. App. Ct. 811 - Grubert v. Grubert (1985)
25 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · 7 Mass. App. Ct. 426 - Berube v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co. · Silas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Ss Zoe Colocotroni
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Particularly significant are the facts that there has not been a trial on the merits and that the carelessness here is relatively minor and is attributable to counsel and not to the litigant.”
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.