Goff v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1939
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Were the rule otherwise, litigation would be interminable, and reversals in cases of this sort might be made without number, first upon one ground and then upon another. Such a practice would encourage parties to present only some of the errors on one appeal and. hold back the others for service at a future time. The opinion on an appeal is the law of the case, and is conclusive of all matters then before the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When a case is brought here, the opinion is conclusive of all questions either decided in the opinion or presented by the record and passed unnoticed in the opinion; for what the court passes imnoticed must be deemed to be approved.””
1 later decision 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.