State v. Stengel’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Westport Taxi Service, Inc. v. Westport Transit District (1995), Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Dowling (1985)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Bertozzi v. McCarthy · H. B. Toms Tree Surgery, Inc. v. Brant · Gallicchio Bros., Inc. v. C & S OIL CO. · Wells Laundry & Linen Supply Co. v. Acme Fast Freight, Inc. · Selleck v. French
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether ... enrichment was unjust is the crux of the determination that we normally entrust to those vested with discretion to grant or to deny interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The allowance of interest as an element of damages is primarily an equitable determination and a matter lying within the discretion of the trial court.”
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.