Trahan v. Trahan’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2015
16 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · United States of America Ex Rel. Shell Oil Company v. Barco Corporation and John Barakat · United States Wilhelm v. Chain · Nelson v. Progressive Realty Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a consent judgment receives a court’s imprimatur, the judgment is in essence a contract between the parties to the litigation from which it is derived. Such a judgment is to be construed as a contract using the rules of construction applicable thereto.” Trahan v. Trahan, 455 A.2d 1307, 1310 (R.I.1983).”
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.