Claflin Co. v. DeVaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1952
5 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 Herz v. Claflin Co. · Herz v. Frank & Adler
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If this [former] decree was erroneous, it is now too late to attack it. The rights of the parties to this litigation must stand or fall by the record as made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lankford v. Holton
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.