Mendonsa v. Corey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Gaudio v. Gaudio (1990), O'Connor v. O'Connor (1986)
3 district · 71 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 Nani v. Zoning Board of Review of Town of Smithfield · Apostolou v. Genovesi · Toohey v. Kilday
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the 'some' or 'any' evidence test and review[ ] the record to determine whether legally competent evidence exists to support the findings.”
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.