Holmes v. . Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably 123 F. Supp. 36 - Reynolds v. Pegler (1954), Warner v. Press Publishing Co. (1892)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 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 Arkansas Val Land Cattle Co v. Mann · Hamilton v. . Eno · Cruikshank v. . Gordon · Distin v. . Rose · Taylor v. . Church
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Statements, admissions, and allegations in pleadings are always in evidence for all the purposes of the trial of the action. They are made for the purposes of the trial, and are before the court and jury, and may be used for any legitimate purpose.””
2 later decisions 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.