Adair’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Kearney v. Standard Insurance (1999), Bellaire General Hospital v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (1996)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Rachal v. United States · Tallman v. Northwest Acute Care Corp. · Malone v. United States Postal Service
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an accepted and encouraged technique for shortening bench trials”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all trials the testimony of witnesses shall be taken orally in open court, unless otherwise directed by the court or provided by rule or statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.