Loughner v. Schmelzer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Greenberg v. Aetna Insurance (1967), Anderson v. City of Pocatello (1987)
56 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 Hurtt v. Stirone · Kravitz Estate · Commonwealth v. Evans · 182 Pa. Super. 75 - Mineo v. Eureka Security Fire & Marine Insurance · Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
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.
“[W]e recognize a valid existing distinction in cases involving the record of conviction of relatively minor matters such as traffic violations, lesser misdemeanors, and matters of like import. Especially in traffic violations, expediency and convenience, rather than guilt, often control the defendant’s "trial technique.””
5 later decisions 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.