Perl v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Dowling (1985), Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis, Inc. v. Winters (1990)
43 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 Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. · Bead Chain Manufacturing Co. v. Saxton Products, Inc. · McGaffin v. Roberts · Gionfriddo v. Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. · Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Cole
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for [the] rule is that the living claimant is in a position of great advantage because of the death of the other party to the transaction and some check must be provided against the possibility of imposition and fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trier [here, the referee] . . . weighs the evidence and decides its probative force.”
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.