Polyard v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Kolitch v. Lindedahl (1985), Waterson v. General Motors Corp. (1988)
6 district · 66 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 Dolson v. Anastasia
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially for the reasons expressed in the opinion of the Appellate Division,”
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.