Ditto v. McCurdy’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2024
6 district · 9 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 Kealoha v. County of Hawaii · Kang v. Harrington · Tabieros v. Clark Equipment Co. · 4 Haw. App. 359 - Lussier v. Mau-Van Development, Inc. I · Weinberg v. Mauch
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether a particular fact is a proper subject for judicial notice is a question of law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a determination of a question of law made by an appellate court in the course of an action becomes the law of the case and may not be disputed by a reopening of the question at a later stage of the litigation”) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). 15 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was sufficient to preserve the issue for appeal.”
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.