Makeun v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2000
4 federal appellate ·
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 People v. India
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“until there is also an adjudication by the fact finder of damages and subsequent entry of a money judgment, there is no obligation to pay anything.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orsini v. Kugel“to encourage settlements by altering or eliminating certain rules of prior law which had an inhibiting effect on the settlement process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be justified on the ground that he is a volunteer as to the excess paid by him.”
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.