Switow v. Sher’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1982 · most notably American Federation of Labor v. Watson (1946), Hollywood, Inc. v. Clark (1943)
27 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 Alexander v. Hillman · Eyster v. Gaff · Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works · Malone v. Meres · Lovett and Lovett v. Lovett
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 9. Interventions. — Anyone claiming an interest in the litigation may at any time be permitted to assert his right by intervention, but the intervention shall be in subordination to, and in recognition of, the propriety of the main proceeding, unless otherwise ordered by the court in its discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where some special circumstances such as insolvency and nonresidence exist, which render it necessary to depart therefrom in order to avoid irreparable injury.”
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.