Lee v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2016
7 federal appellate ·
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 Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Alpha Distributing Co. of California, Inc. v. Jack Daniel Distillery · Herbert J. Roberts v. Norman M. Ross, Jr · Albert B. Poe v. Margaret G. Poe
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) trial judge must explain the considerations that enter into his decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.