Donnell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably 169 Ill. 2d 504 - Swick v. Liautaud (1996), Stinson v. State (1931)
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Lincoln v. Saratoga & Schenectady Rail Road · Armstrong v. Percy · Lawson v. Orear · McCullough v. Walton · De Forest v. Leete
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to exclude all, and every part of the testimony which was offered by the plaintiffs (below) showing their credit was impaired by suing out the attachment”
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.