Kleinman v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Kerin v. Stangle (1988), Mayer v. Biafore, Florek & O'Neill (1998)
2 district · 63 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 State v. Nardini · Satti v. Rago · Lupien v. Lupien · O'Connor v. Chiascione · Hennessy v. Denihan
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of a justiciable controversy, the courts have no jurisdiction.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendants are the sole beneficiaries of the estate, then at the death of Charles Miller, the interests of the parties ceased to be adverse,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n effect, the plaintiff [fiduciary] continued to sue the defendants for the benefit of the defendants.”
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.