Edwards v. Mesch’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
12 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 Leitensdorfer v. Webb · Jesko v. Stauffer Chemical Company · L. R. Property Management, Inc. v. Grebe · Brock v. Adams · Leitensdorfer v. Webb
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.
“`whether one is the owner of the right being enforced and is in a position to discharge the defendant from the liability being asserted in the suit.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]very action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest.”
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.