Pledger v. Bosnick’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation (1993), State ex rel. White v. Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (1997)
45 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 Thomas v. McElroy · Wilburn v. Keenan Companies, Inc. · Kilgore v. Viner · Mueller v. Killam · Estate of Hastings v. Planters & Stockmen Bank
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“finally adjudicates the rights of the parties, putting it beyond the power of the court which made it to place the parties in their original positions [citation omitted]. It must be such a final determination as may be enforced by execution or in some other appropriate manner [citation omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Chambers v. Manning
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.