Ortiz v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2003
16 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 Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co. · Skendzel v. Marshall · Ott v. Keller · Mesich v. Board of County Com'rs of McKinley Co. · Westerman v. City of Carlsbad
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Equity] looks to the substance rather than the form. It will not sanction an unconscionable result merely because it may have been brought about by means which simulate legality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`one should do unto others as, in equity and good conscience, he would have them do unto him, if their positions were reversed. [citation omitted] Its compulsion is one of fair play.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Requested findings and conclusions should not slip through the judge's fingers like an eel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lieb v. Milne
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.