Platt v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Tandra S. v. Tyrone W. (1994), Southern Management Corp. v. Taha (2003)
38 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 Commissioner v. Lester · Haskell v. Carey · Hughes v. Beltway Homes, Inc. · Weitz v. MacKenzie · Maryland Lumber Co. v. Savoy Construction Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for a period of thirty days from the entry of a law or equity judgment a circuit court shall have `unrestricted discretion' to revise it.”
3 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.