Erisman v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Pierce (1954), Price v. Short (1996)
43 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 Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. · Golden v. Odiorne · San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Morgan · St. Louis, S. F. & T. Ry. Co. v. Wilson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... [P]leadings determine the issues upon which parties go to trial, and it is not even proper to admit evidence unless it is addressed to or bears upon some issue raised by the pleadings. [Citations omitted] The rule further is that allegations of the pleadings and the evidence offered thereunder must conform to each other...."”
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.