Fitzgerald v. LaFreniere’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2001
4 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 Garza v. Alviar · Burnett v. Motyka · International Security Life Insurance Co. v. Spray · Vahlsing Christina Corp. v. Ryman Well Service, Inc. · Duncan Development, Inc. v. Haney
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a. It was made in the regular course of business; b. It was the regular course of that business for an employee or representative of such business with personal knowledge of such act, event or condition to make such memorandum or record or to transmit information thereof to be included in such memorandum or record; c. It was made at or near the time of the act, event or condition or reasonably soon thereafter.”
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.