Ventress v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Hecht v. Resolution Trust Corp. (1994), Hughes v. Reed (1931)
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Bosworth v. . Allen · Greenfield Savings Bank v. Abercrombie · Boyd v. Mutual Fire Ass'n · Hightower v. Thornton · Emerson v. Gaither
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is earnestly contended that this is an action in tort, and that the equity court is not the proper forum.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. Applewhite
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.