Dowdy v. Wamble’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1941 · most notably State ex rel. Merriam v. Ross (1894), Thompson v. Terminal Shares, Inc. (1937)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Hansberger v. Pacific Railroad · Rosenheim v. Hartsock · State ex rel. Union Depot Railroad v. Southern Railway Co. · Haggard v. Atlantic & Pacific Railroad · Gist v. Loring
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases of appeal, the bill of items of the account sued on or filed as a counterclaim or set-off, or the statement of the plaintiff’s cause of action, or of defendant’s counterclaim or set-off or other ground of defense filed before the justice, may be amended upon appeal in the appellate court to supply any deficiency or omission therein, when by such amendment substantial justice will be promoted; but no new item or cause of action not embraced or intended to be included in the original account or statement, shall be added by such amendment. Such amendment shall be allowed upon such terms as to costs as the court may deem just and proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We venture to say it would be difficult to suggest language having a broader significance in this connection than the words ` intended to be included in the original account or statement' as here used. Looking at the prior law and to the manifest purpose in changing it, namely, to simplify yet further the proceedings in causes originating before justices, we do not doubt that the legislative intent was to relax the rigid rule which those decisions established, and to permit amendments on appeal, even where essential facts were thereby first brought into the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crandall v. Durham“The same cause of action, and no other, that was tried before the justice, shall be tried before the appellate court upon the appeal . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crandall v. Durham
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.