Pratt v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably Cressler v. Brown (1920), Johnson v. Whelan (1940)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Williamsburgh Savings Bank v. Town of Solon · Gray v. Pingry
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There must be some end to litigation, and much more injustice might be done in reviewing forgotten issues, than in limiting the right to prosecute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The doctrine of res judicata is conducive of peace, repose, and morality, and that without working any injustice.””
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.