Perkins v. Salem’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2015
21 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“matters of evidence and procedure which with due diligence could have been included in [the original] motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calhoun v. Greening
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.