Griswold v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1971
8 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 Davis v. McCampbell · King v. McCann
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The security for costs in this case being signed by only those who were parties to the suit in the court below, is not in compliance with the requirements of Section 439 (now Section 792, supra), which has been decided by this court to be peremptory. (Par. ours.) ‡ * ‡ Jfc * ‡ “As no security for costs was given in compliance with the statute, it follows that the motion to dismiss must prevail.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Samuels
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.