Singleton v. Consolidated Freightways Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably State v. Fearick (1976), Wilson v. Wal-Mart Stores (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 Wormack v. Howard · Crater v. County of Somerset · Raditsas v. Insurance Co. of North America · McBennett v. City of Paterson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a presumption against a legislative intention to effect a change in substance of a statute unless the change is expressed in language admitting of no reasonable doubt of its purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile liberality of construction of remedial legislation is desirable, we cannot ignore the plain meaning of the language employed by the Legislature.”
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.