Perlmutter v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably 23 Cal. 2d 390 - People v. Ricciardi (1943), Murphy, Inc. v. Town of Westport (1944)
57 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Thomas Cusack Company v. City of Chicago · Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co. · Welch v. Swasey · Matter of Wulfsohn v. Burden
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]eauty may not be queen, but she is not an outcast beyond the pale of protection or respect. She may at least shelter herself under the wing of safety, morality or decency.”
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.