Wright v. Shorten’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2022
11 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 Breck v. Ulmer · Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc. v. Stepanoff · Gamble v. Northstore Partnership · Hertz v. Berzanske · Gregor v. Hodges
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will not find an abuse of discretion unless we are left with a definite and firm conviction on the whole record that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Rowland“hold the pleadings of pro se litigants to less stringent standards than those of lawyers,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaiser v. Sakata“provide relief from judgments which, for one reason or another, are unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Rowland
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.