Grisso v. Nolen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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

1. “The concept of standing concerns itself with the characteristics of the person or entity who files suit. The point of standing is to ensure that the person who asserts a position has a substantial legal right to do so and that his rights will be affected by the disposition of the case. In asking whether a person has standing, we ask, in essence, whether he has a sufficient interest in the subject matter of the case so that the parties will be actual adversaries and the issues will be fully and faithfully developed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Westlake Properties v. Westlake Pointe Ass'n

2. “limited to whether [the plaintiff] had standing to bring the petition seeking the disinterment and reburial of his former wife's body.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shilling v. Baker

3. “[i]nterments. . . should not be disturbed except for good cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shilling v. Baker