Thompson v. Rothman’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2022
13 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 Bliss v. Bliss · Doucette v. Washburn · Austin v. Austin · MacDonald v. MacDonald · Wheeler v. Maine Unemployment Insurance Commission
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the same judge who issued the original judgment also made the clarification,” and we would have reviewed factual findings based on extrinsic evidence for clear error. Id. It appears from the judgment before us that the court did find “successful completion” to be ambiguous and interpreted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e will ... review a court's clarification of an ambiguity in a judgment for abuse of discretion.” Thompson v. Rothman, 2002 ME 39, ¶ 7 , 791 A.2d 921 .”
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.