Jameson v. Harvel’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1960
20 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 Goldsborough v. Hewitt · Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. Austin · Lookabaugh v. Epperson · Rogers v. McCord-collins Mercantile Co. · Welch v. Ladd
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether an appearance is general or special does not depend upon the form of the pleading, but upon its substance. If a defendant invokes the judgment of the court upon any question, except that of the power of the court to hear and decide the cause, his appearance is ‘general’ ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Summers v. Williams““Whether an appearance is general or special does not depend upon the form of a pleading, but upon its substance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bingham v. Williams
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.