State v. Parmalee’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Turner v. Turner (1991), Kyrtatas v. Stop & Shop, Inc. (1988)
123 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 Peck v. Jacquemin · Dukes v. Durante · State v. Grant · State v. Campbell · Town of Winchester v. Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there are two possible interpretations of a statute and one alternative proves unreasonable or produces the possibility of bizarre results, then the more reasonable alternative should be adopted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“identifying the societal problems which the legislature sought to address may be particularly helpful in determining the true meaning of the statute.”
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.