Liddell & Co. v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1988
8 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 Wood v. Holly Manufacturing Co. · Nelms v. Edinburg American Land Mortgage Co. · Garland v. Watson · Hooper v. Strahan · Ezzell v. Watson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . . If the incapacity to sue, arising from infancy or other cause, does not appear, however, on the face of the bill, the defendant must take advantage of it by plea; but, if the incapacity appears on the face of it, he may demur. [Story Eq.Pl.] §§ 493, 494, 722; Nelms v. [Edinburg-American L.] Mortgage Co., 92 Ala. 162 , 9 South. 141 . . . . .”
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.