Vogt v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1918
16 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 Lingenfelder v. Wainwright Brewing Co. · Wiggins Ferry Co. v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Carter v. Prior · Tucker v. Allen · Grant v. Holmes
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It often happens, as in this case, that it is absolutely necessary to inquire into the financial condition of the parties to ascertain which has told the more probable story—whose evidence is most consistent with the surrounding facts and circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sager v. St. John
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.