Crane v. . Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably Jacobus v. . Colgate (1916), Rabouin v. National Labor Relations Board (1952)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 139 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 Hamer v. . Sidway · Graffam v. Pierce · Duffy v. . O'Donovan · Harris v. Knickerbacker · Porter v. . Wormser
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the solution of this question the provisions of the Code should not be overlooked. The statute may be used as a defense to actions on certain agreements. A defense must now be presented, either by demurrer or answer. (Code [Civ Pro], § 487.)”
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.