Glenn v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 152 · 1889
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1940 · most notably United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co (1922), Slocum v. New York Life Insurance (1913)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Bond v. Dustin · Moores v. National Bank · Evans v. Pike
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sufficiency and scope of pleadings,, and the form and effect of verdicts, in actions at law, are matters in which the Circuit Courts of the^ United States are governed by the practice of the courts of the state in which they are held.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tomkins v. Paterson“a statement of the facts constituting the cause of action,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Lewis“a statement of any new matter constituting a defence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Lewis
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.