Schreiber’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Estate of Caton (1982), Porter v. Household Finance Corp. of Columbus (1974)
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Hayne v. Hood
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an action survives depends on the substance of the cause of action, not on the forms of proceeding to enforce it.”
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.