Day v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2017
19 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 Malvo Ex Rel. Malvo v. J. C. Penney Co. · Haskins v. Shelden · Davis v. Chism · Adoption of v. M. C. · Cooper v. Carlson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he prevailing party is the one `who has successfully prosecuted or defended against the action, the one who is successful on the "main issue”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In ordering a remand we do not intend to [imply] approval or disapproval of the amount of attorney’s fees which were initially awarded. Inherent in our disposition is the conclusion that it is permissible for the trial court to depart from the fee schedule of Civil Rule 82(a)(1) where the reasons for the departure appear in the record, Haskins v. Shelden, 558 P.2d 487, 496 (Alaska 1976), such as where a defense or claim borders on the frivolous. Steenmeyer Corp. v. Mortenson-Neal, 731 P.2d 1221, 1226 (Alaska 1987); Crook v. Mortenson-Neal, 727 P.2d 297, 306 (Alaska 1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Van Dort v. Culliton“One who defeats a claim of great potential liability may be the prevailing party even though the other side receives an affirmative recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McLeod v. Parnell
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.