Foust v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1958
7 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 Smart v. Mayer · Peoples National Bank v. Casey
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff who, in an action on a promissory note, alleged that it contained a mistake and asked to have the mistake corrected cannot complain of the failure of the court to correct the mistake where after verdict against him the court on his motion grants a new trial.” (Syl. If 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““After the order granting the motion for a new trial had been made, there was no verdict, there were no answers to special questions, and there was no judgment against the defendant. The action stood for trial on the issues made by the pleadings.” (p. 472.)”
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.