Butler v. . Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Fontana Land Co. v. Laughlin (1926), House v. . Carr (1906)
2 federal appellate · 94 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 Loder v. . Hatfield · Hadden v. Spader · Borst v. . Corey · Bloodgood v. . Bruen · Rundle v. . Allison
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the legislature prescribed, for instance, six years, in which to commence an action upon a liability or obligation, express or implied, we think it meant to include in such description an action which might formerly have been prosecuted in either court, upon or by reason of such obligation, and where the remedy would have been adequate in either; and if the form of the remedy chosen were such as would formerly have been cognizable in chancery, yet the limitation applicable to the remedy at law would apply. There can be no sense in enlarging the time by a mere change of the form of the remedy sought, where the subject-matter of the action is precisely the same, and the remedy in either was adequate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hann v. Culver
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.