Alexander v. Clarkson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2024
20 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 Noftzger v. Moffett · Lundberg v. Davidson · Schuler v. Collins · Herman v. Miller · Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad v. Murray
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are two important ends in view in every lawsuit; the first is that it be decided right; and the second, which is only less important than the first, is that it be decided,.’’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“judgments are not mutual, the ordinary rule seems to be, and ought to be, that a bona fide assignee, especially where the element of priority is involved, is protected”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Falconer v. Adams
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.