Ross' Case’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1979
15 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.
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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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the petitioner ever was . . .indifferent to the lack of answer, and the trial was had as though every material fact had been formally denied, and the case was [tried] on its intrinsic worth, it is regarded that the direction for answering was waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““recital of the cause that produced the injury is of a past event whereof self-interest may have warped both memory and judgment, it is uncontemporaneous with a present situation, and therefrom does not derive a claim to confidence and credit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldstein v. Sklar““That hearsay was improperly allowed into the record is not overlooked, but it did not come essentially into the finding and the decree, so reversible error was not done.””
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.