Most v. Most’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Pongonis v. Pongonis (1992), Maine Energy Recovery Co. v. United Steel Structures, Inc. (1999)
28 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 Quillie B. Woodham v. The American Cystoscope Company of Pelham, N. Y., and the Xyz Corporation · Strater v. Strater · Boaz v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York · Smith v. Smith · Continental Casualty Company, a Corporation v. American Fidelity & Casualty Company, a Corporation, Continental Casualty Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff-Cross-Appellant v. American Fidelity & Casualty Company, a Corporation, Defendant-Cross-Appellee
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision whether to hold a hearing is reviewable on appeal only for an abuse of discretion.”
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.