Deaton v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Binford v. Snyder (1945), Hamilton v. Hamilton (1955)
180 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.
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Before it can be said that a cause of action exists in a legal sense, there must be such a mature right as may be declared upon and maintained, subject only to such valid defenses by which it may be defeated. In 25 Cyc. 1065, the rule is laid down as follows: `”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The accrual of the cause of action means the right to institute and maintain a suit; and, whenever one person may sue another, a cause of action has accrued and the statute begins to run.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshburn v. Stewart“the material facts of fraud in the trade.”
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.