Slade v. Slade’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2023
8 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 Federal Kemper Life Assurance Co. v. Bodine · Roland M. v. Concord School Committee · Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court · Brook Village North Associates v. General Electric Co. · Commonwealth v. Funches
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce the issues are defined in a final pretrial order, 'they ought to be adhered to in the absence of some good and sufficient reason'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“courts have consistently focused on the elements of surprise and unfairness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the possibility that a party may be effectively foreclosed from presenting any evidence on the very issue that [turns out to be] dispositive of the case”
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.