State v. Surma’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1993
15 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 Commonwealth v. Gallo · State ex rel. Heiden v. Ryan · People v. . Elliott · Eau Claire National Bank v. Benson · Manley v. Mayer
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts should be most reluctant to overrule a prior decision that lays down a 'rule of property 4 or a rule that governs commercial transactions.”
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.