Martin v. Lahti’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Canterbury v. Spence · Kern v. TXO Production Corp. · 41 Va. App. 658 - Crowder v. Commonwealth · Jacobs v. General Electric Co. · Landrum v. CHIPPENHAM AND JOHNSTON-WILLIS
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a decision is discretionary ... the court has a range of choice, and ... its decision will not be disturbed as long as it stays within that range and is not influenced by any mistake of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“merely because it would have come to a different result.”
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.