State v. Wolowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Maxwell v. Fidelity Financial Services, Inc. (1995), Ragone v. Atlantic Video at the Manhattan Center (2010)
2 federal appellate · 6 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 MATTER OF STATE v. Italian Line · Martinez v. Ehrenfeld
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract or clause is unconscionable when there is an absence of meaningful choice on the part of one of the parties together with contract terms which are unreasonably favorable to the other party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The procedural element of unconscionability concerns the contract formation process and the alleged lack of meaningful choice; the substantive element looks to the content of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essentially involves a bargained-for exchange between the parties[,].... [a]bsent some violation of law or transgression of a strong public policy, the parties to a contract are basically free to make whatever agreement they wish, no matter how unwise it might appear to a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quinio v. Aala
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.