Haskell v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1815
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1969 · most notably Bothwell v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. (1913), Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Co. v. Gordon (1903)
33 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 Pratt v. Hull
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 plaintiff or demandant may, in various modes, become nonsuit, or discontinue his suit, at his pleasure. At the beginning of every term at which he is dcmandable he may neglect or refuse to appear. If the pleadings are not closed, he may refuse to reply, or to join an issue tendered; or, after issue joined, he may decline to open his cause to the jury. The court may, upon sufficient cause shown, allow him to discontinue, even when it cannot be claimed as a right; as, after the cause is opened, and the evidence submitted to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Bailey
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.