Sellars v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2010
6 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 State ex rel. Payson v. Chapman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issues respecting it were determined in accordance with their contentions, and in accordance with the prayer of their petition. By a new trial they could obtain no more favorable relief than they now have, and plainly have no grievance because of the judgment of which they can legally complain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuhn v. Schall“it is only a party aggrieved by a verdict or decision who may move for a new trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuhn v. Schall
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.