Three S. Development Co. v. Santore’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 district · 234 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 258 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Solomon v. Aberman (1985), State v. Montgomery (2000)
24 district · 234 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 Texas v. Brown · Ledgebrook Condominium Assn., Inc. v. Lusk Corporation · Lar-Rob Bus Corp. v. Town of Fairfield · Augeri v. C. F. Wooding Co. · Society for Savings v. Chestnut Estates, Inc.
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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . probable cause that a judgment . . . will be rendered in the matter in favor of the plaintiff . . .”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here [are] numerous questions remaining to be resolved at the trial with respect to both the factual and legal efficacy of the [plaintiff's claims] . . . but . . . these questions [do] not militate against a finding of probable cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether the parties intended to modify their contract is a question of fact.”
3 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.