Shacter v. Richter’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2018
19 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 Lott v. Davidson · State ex rel. Stenstrom v. Wilson · Lambach v. Northwestern Refining Co. Inc. · McNeil v. American Export Lines, Inc. · Stanford v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) Consolidation — Common Question of Law Or Fact. When actions involving a common question of law or fact are pending before the court, it may-order a joint hearing or trial of any or all the matters in issue in the actions; it may order all the actions consolidated; and it may make such orders concerning proceedings therein as may tend to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.””
5 later decisions 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.