Adler v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1960 · most notably Grayson v. Muckleroy (1929), George E. Wood Lumber Co. v. Williams (1908)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Rea v. Longstreet & Sedgwick · Cheney v. Nathan · Mayor of Jersey City v. Lembeck · Echols v. Hubbard · Ward v. Janney
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The mere reading of the bill in connection with the statute, under which it is filed,(Acts, 1892-93, p. 42), suffices to show that it contains the necessary averments under the act, to give the court jurisdiction and to authorize relief. * * *"”
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.