Spencer's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2025
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The original agreement had the legal effect of a judgment on what it purported to cover, but it covered only the injury to the fingers. The thumb was not included. Therefore the claimant still had the legal right to file the presgnt original petition for injury to his thumb....”
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.