Downey v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1964 · most notably Egnatic ex rel. Egnatic v. Wollard (1943), Cooley v. Shepherd (1950)
29 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 Bichel v. Oliver · Fetzer & Co. v. Williams · Bowersox v. J. W. Hall & Co. · Upham v. Head · Bissey v. City of Marion
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.
“. “Where a demurrer is filed to a petition on the ground that it does not state a cause of action, without first presenting a motion to have the allegations of the petition made more definite and certain, the allegations of such petition will be liberally construed in favor of the pleader. “A petition containing the necessary allegations to advise the defendant of the claim against him and of the relief demanded is good on demurrer although stated in an awkward and unskillful manner.” (Syl. MI 1, 2.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Second. A statement of the facts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise language, and without repetition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.