Pulliam v. Sells’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1967
12 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 J. W. Reccius & Bro. v. Columbia Finance & Trust Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of the provisos attached to that section are for the purpose of protecting the party against whom the expert testimony is to be introduced from imposition by undertaking to prove the genuineness of the disputed signature by comparison with writings not fully proved to be genuine. All this is rendered unnecessary when the party admits the genuineness of the writing to be 'compared with the disputed signature.””
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.