Perel v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Cangiano v. LSH BLDG. CO., LLC (2006), Little v. Cooke (2007)
22 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 Wilson v. Holyfield · Ted Lansing Supply Co. v. Royal Aluminum & Construction Corp. · Mid-State Equipment Co. v. Bell · Bond v. Crawford · Sonoma Development, Inc. v. Miller
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to purely factual determinations made by the trial court, we will not disturb those findings unless they are plainly wrong or without evidence to support them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enforcement of the decree would be unusually difficult for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.