Beachy v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1964 · most notably Jerke v. Delmont State Bank (1929), West v. Sims (1941)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Ireland v. Shore · Atkinson v. Darling · Holyoke Envelope Co. v. Heagler · Sanders v. Wakefield · Eagan v. Murray
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Passing next to the controversy between Jones and Campbell, there was nothing material the matter with Jones’s cross petition. It narrated all the pertinent facts necessary to state a defense to the action, and a defense to Campbell’s claim that Jones was primarily liable and himself only liable secondarily, and evidence thereon in extenso was admitted by the trial court. The only defect in the petition — if it was a defect — was in the prayer, and that is seldom very important. In Eagan v. Murray, 102 Kan. 193 , 170 Pac. 389 , it was said: “■‘The prayer of a petition is merely the pleader’s idea of the relief to which he is entitled; it is not a part of the statement of the cause of action; and if the cause of action [or defense] is sufficiently stated and sufficiently proved, the court will adjudge and decree the proper legal redress, which may or may not conform in whole or in part to the relief prayed for by the pleader.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beachy v. Jones
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.