In Re Erica B.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Department of Human Services v. Lowatchie (1990), Morse Bros., Inc. v. Webster (2001)
26 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 Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey · Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Bodwell Granite Co. · State v. Maine State Employees Ass'n · Gilpatrick v. Glidden · Moshe Myerowitz, D.C., P.A. v. Howard
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal is final, as opposed to interlocutory, if (1) the trial court’s action fully decides and disposes of the whole matter leaving nothing further for the consideration and judgment of the trial court; and (2) no subsequent proceedings in the case will render the appellate court’s decision immaterial.”
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.