Lorenz v. Caste Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1981
10 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 Foley v. the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Co. · Fornelli v. Penna. R. R. Co. · King v. Equitable Gas Co. · Brogan v. Philadelphia · Bergen v. Lit Bros.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, where there are several defendants, if the record shows that the interest of justice requires a new trial as to all of them — as the court below here said that it did — an order to that effect will not be disturbed on appeal: [Citing cases].” (Italics supplied.)”
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.