Sires v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1981
17 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 Gallenkamp v. Westmeyer · Stump v. Hornback · Clark v. Sires · Stump v. Hornbeck
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think there was no error committed in the rulings made on evidence. It is insisted that the court should not have permitted witnesses to state what the work of clearing was worth. No issue of that kind was submitted to the jury. It is true that witnesses made statements of the worth of the work. But that was only a mode of obtaining the value. One of the means of showing the value of anything is to show the cost to produce it. It does not follow that an improvement is necessarily worth its cost. But, at the same time, it is one of the things which tend to show the value. As we have already seen, the jury were especially warned as to these matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Staub v. Phillips
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.