Bridges v. Ingram’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Smith Ex Rel. Leech v. Mills (1950), Jacobson v. Doan (1957)
2 district · 40 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 Allison v. Schuber · Spencer v. Brundage
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If sufficient notice concerning the transaction involved is afforded the adverse party, the theory of the pleader is not important. If, under the facts, the substantive law provided relief upon any `theory,' the cause should proceed to judgment."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Except as to a party against whom a judgment is entered by default, every final judgment shall grant the relief to which the party in whose favor it is rendered is entitled, even if the party has not demanded such relief in his pleadings."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osteen v. Johnson“we are no longer concerned with meeting technical requirements of theories of causes of actions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.