Fisher v. DeCarvalho’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Northern Natural Gas Co. v. ONEOK Field Services Co. · Bergstrom v. Spears Manufacturing Co. · Pieren-Abbott v. Kansas Department of Revenue · Harris v. Shanahan · Garrett v. City of Topeka
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law prefers that cases be decided on their merits rather than on technical compliance with procedural rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“litigants should not be unnecessarily penalized for the simple neglect of their attorney[s]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.