Perkins v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1938
10 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 Tebbetts & Pearce v. Dowd · Cheever v. Congdon · Tate ex rel. Fleming v. Stevenson · Schlee v. Estate of Darrow · Landon ex rel. Cummins v. Comet
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is further contended that the order of the probate court granting leave to sue the bond is res judicata of the defendant’s liability. But this court has held otherwise.” Perkins v. Cheney, 114 Mich. 567 ( 68 Am. St. Rep. 495 ), citing numerous cases.”
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.