Perrotti v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably White v. Burns (1990), 6 Cal. 3d 424 - Baldwin v. State of California (1972)
58 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 Seifert v. . City of Brooklyn · Hoyt v. City of Danbury · Gould v. City of Topeka · Jones v. City of New Haven · Teager v. City of Flemingsburg
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . were the plan of construction adopted one which was totally inadmissible . . . the highway would have been in such a defective condition as to have been out of repair from the beginning.”
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.