Kopec v. Kakowski’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably Fazio v. Brown (1988), Fortugno Realty Co. v. Schiavone-Bonomo Corp. (1963)
25 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 Melone v. Jersey Central Power & Light Co. · Kress v. City of Newark · Franklin Discount Co. v. Ford · Hendrikson v. Koppers Co., Inc. · Salitan v. Magnus
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court, in considering such a motion, cannot weigh the evidence but must accept as true all evidence which supports the view of the party against whom the motion is made and must give him the benefit of all legitimate inferences which are to be drawn therefrom in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judge, by the application of the reasoning processes of the mind to the evidence adduced in the case, may properly conclude that fair-minded men cannot honestly differ as to the conclusions to be drawn from the proofs.”
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.