Conner v. . Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Torrington Co. v. Stutzman (2001), Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Southern Railway News Co. (1899)
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Chace v. Hinman · Bridgeport Fire & Marine Insurance v. Wilson · Rockfeller v. Donnelly · Methodist Churches of New York v. . Barker · Annett v. . Terry
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Can it be affirmed, as a matter of law, that the conditions of the bond only covered judgments obtained upon hostile and adverse litigation, and that no discretion was left in the sheriff to consent to a judgment, although he believed that by so doing money would be saved to the parties ultimately liableThis, we think, would be a too strict interpretation of the contract. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(T)he reasonable rule is that a judgment so obtained (I. e., by consent of the parties to the action rather than by a decision on the merits) is presumptive evidence only against the sureties, and that they are at liberty to show that it was not founded upon any legal liability to the plaintiff in the action, or exceed(s) such liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.