Volpert v. Papagna’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2025
22 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 Lindauer v. Allen · Thran v. First Judicial District Court · Harris v. Harris · Jackson v. De Benedetti · Waite v. Burgess
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he date of the filing of the amended complaint is not the relevant date. The action was commenced . . . when the complaint was filed. NRCP 3.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Harber“consider the merits of the action in exercising its discretion”
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.