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← 21 R.I. 72 - Sullivan v. Waterman

Sullivan v. Waterman’s Empirical Analysis

1898

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1931
most recently cited

6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1931

6 state decisions

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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 Wright v. Dickinson · Cox v. Providence Gas Company · State v. Nagle

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It has repeatedly been held that a party will not be obliged to furnish facts already known to his adversary.””
    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.