Lee v. Calvert’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
June 1995
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on California Products, Inc. v. Puretex Lemon Juice, Inc. · Wilde v. Buchanan · Hardy, Guardian v. Wernette · Calvert v. Johnston · Johnston v. Calvert
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our adoption statutes ... should be given a liberal construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MMD
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.