Reyburn v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1938 · most notably Harrigan v. Gilchrist (1904), Albright v. Albright (1916)
31 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 Case v. Beauregard · Case v. Beauregard · Huiskamp v. Moline Wagon Co. · Sexton v. Anderson · Real Estate Saving Inst. v. Collonious
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think the court committed error in permitting the amendment to the petition, making it correspond to the changes which had occurred since the commencement of the suit, nor in allowing new parties who had become interested in the property to be brought in. Amendments are favored, and should be liberally allowed in furtherance of justice. [R. S. 1879, secs. 3568, 3572.] ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McFall v. Murray
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.