Needham v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 1968 · most notably State v. Comer (1902), Eel River Railroad v. State ex rel. Kistler (1900)
70 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 Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Adamson · Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe Co. v. Lafayette, Muncie, & Bloomington Railroad · Anderson v. Ackerman · Kelley v. State · Dawson v. Vaughan
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]o constitute a good answer of another cause pending, it must appear that the suit pending is for the same identical cause of action as that in which the answer is interposed, and that it is between the same parties or their privies. " (Emphasis ours.)”
2 later decisions 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.