Binney v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1943
9 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 United States v. Reyburn · Mauri v. Heffernan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party is not bound to send original documents out of tlie commonwealth to be proved by subscribing witnesses. The risk that they may he lost, obliterated, or mutilated in the course of transmission is one of the main reasons on which the exception to the rule dispensing with the testimony of attesting witnesses who are out of the state is founded.””
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.