Warkentin v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Concept Associates, Ltd. v. Board of Tax Review (1994), Lussier v. Department of Transportation (1994)
2 district · 108 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 Mystic Marinelife Aquarium, Inc. v. Gill · Borden Co. v. Borella · Spring v. Constantino · Anderson v. Ludgin · State v. Kozlowski
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the language used by the legislature is plain and unambiguous, there is no room for construction by the courts and the statute will be applied as its words direct.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“The notice requirement is not intended merely to alert the commissioner to the occurrence of an accident and resulting injury, but rather to permit the commissioner to gather information to protect himself in the event of a lawsuit.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he requirement as to notice was not devised as a means of placing difficulties in the path of an injured person.”
5 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.