Jackson v. Dotson’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2008
8 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 Parvin v. Wimberg · New River Mineral Co. v. Painter · 4 E.H. Smith 269 - Spencer v. . Myers · Merriman Co. v. Thomas & Co. · Lewis's Adm'r v. Hicks
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * ‘a plea of nonassumpsit denies the right of the plaintiff to recover on the claim made in his -declaration,’ and an affidavit filed with the plea ‘that the matters stated in the annexed plea are true,’ puts in issue the entire claim asserted, and is, at least, a sub stantial compliance with the requirements of the statute. The plea here, as is usual in cases where the right of the plaintiff to recover anything on the claim he sues on, says that he (defendant) did not undertake in manner.and form as the plaintiff hath complained. In other words, the defendant by such a plea says that he did not undertake or promise to pay the claim sued on, and that, therefore, the plaintiff is not entitled to recover of the defendant such claim or any part thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.