Perry v. Hanover’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 233 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Bartley v. Phillips (1944), Hoffman v. City of Chelsea (1943)
2 district · 233 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 Bresnick v. Heath · Lindenbaum v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Strong v. Haverhill Electric Co. · Memishian v. Phipps · Adamaitis v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any request for rulings, founded upon evidence, shall be refused upon the ground that it is inconsistent with or inapplicable to the facts found, or because the facts recited in the request are not found, the court shall state the facts found, or the facts recited which it does not find, upon which such refusal is based, unless the same appears from special findings filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Styffe v. Smith“[E]ven testimony that is `undisputed' or `uncontradicted' need not necessarily be believed”
1 later decision 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.