Minot v. Minot’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 1992 · most notably Marine Contractors Co. Inc. v. Hurley (1974), J. T. Healy & Son, Inc. v. James A. Murphy & Son, Inc. (1970)
88 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 Bartley v. Phillips · Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. · General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Department of Public Works · Dodge v. Anna Jaques Hospital · Snow v. Alley
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a high degree of legal acumen and judicial wisdom ... and seldom can be revised on appeal.”
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.