Burleigh v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2000
11 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 Sheepscot Land Corp. v. Gregory · Emerson v. A. E. Hotels, Inc. · Chute v. Lajoie · Sortino v. Fisher
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly a showing by the delinquent plaintiff of “good cause to the contrary,” addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, Emerson v. A.E. Hotels, Inc., Me., 403 A.2d 1192, 1193, n. 2 (1979), will overcome Rule 41(b)(l)’s command that an action that the plaintiff has allowed to lie completely dormant for more than two years must, without more, be dismissed.”
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.