Petty Et Ux. v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Birmingham (1964), Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Farr (1967)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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 Johnson v. Cadillac Motor Car Co. · Stanley v. Stanley · Walton v. Koffman Et Ux. · Roenfeldt v. St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co. · McGovern v. Eckhart
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Substantive law is defined as the positive law which creates, defines and regulates the rights and duties of the parties and which may give rise to or cause for action, as distinguished from adjective law which pertains to and prescribes the practice and procedure or the legal machinery by which the substantive law is determined or made effective... .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The parties, in making their contract, did not rely on the provisions of the statute before it was amended, the amendment does not change the meaning of the contract at all, nor does the amendment deprive either party of any right which he would have had if the amendment had been enacted before the contract was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the law of the case doctrine does not apply to a case where the policy of the law has been changed in the meantime by a legislative enactment, in a case where the amended provision deals only with procedure rather than with making a change in substantive law[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.