Thomas v. Fey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2005
4 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 Rosenfeld v. Rosenfeld · Peterson v. Peterson · Berg v. Berg · Nafstad v. Merchant · Rieman v. Joubert
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party is deemed to have effective notice of a referee’s recommended order under section 484.65, subd. 9 three working days after the date on which the order is actually mailed by a party or by the family court clerk. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruppert v. Schmidt“Review of any recommended order or finding of a referee by the district court judge may be had by notice served and filed within ten days of effective notice of such recommended order or finding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruppert v. Schmidt
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.