Alexander v. McDow’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 26 Cal. App. 318 - Slaughter v. Goldberg, Bowen & Co. (1915), Gallagher v. California Pacific Title & Trust Co. (1936)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Prescott v. Grady · Amestoy v. Elec. Rapid Transit Co. · Hentsch v. Porter · Garner v. Marshall · People v. Rains
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, while a judgment will not relieve from the entire absence of a necessary averment, it will cure defects in all such averments as may by fair and reasonable intendment be found to have been pleaded, although defectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lester v. Beer
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.