Leahey v. Heasley’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Beizer v. Goepfert (1992), Home Oil Co. v. Todd (1985)
50 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 Noren Et Ux. v. Wood · Fine v. Moomjian · Thompson v. Main · McKay v. Fair Haven & Westville Railroad · Atta v. Cutner
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen . . . an issue of fact is joined, the case may, within ten days after such issue of fact is joined, be entered into the docket as a jury case upon the request of either party made to the clerk. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“so as not . . . to deprive a party of his full right to a trial by a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate”
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.