Perry v. Medeiros’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Fishman v. Brooks (1986), LaClair v. Silberline Manufacturing Co., Inc. (1979)
8 district · 48 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 Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway · Guinan v. Famous Players-Lasky Corp. · Regan v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Richmond v. Warren Institution for Savings · Baird v. Baptist Society
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is evidence of negligence on the part of a violator as to all consequences that the statute, ordinance or regulation was intended to prevent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Southwick“shall not be a defense under this section unless the defendant proves that he was prejudiced thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.