Swanson v. Boschen’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Ford v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc. (1990), Associated Investment Co. Ltd. Partnership v. Williams Associates IV (1994)
2 district · 52 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Arnstein v. Porter · Woods v. Stone · Dawson v. Town of Orange · Linahan v. Linahan
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially of the same nature or is such an issue as prior to 1818 would have been triable to jury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appeals from probate involving the validity of a will or paper purporting to be such, appeals from the doings of commissioners on insolvent estates, and, except as hereinafter provided, civil actions involving such an issue of fact, as, prior to January 1, 1880, would not present a question properly cognizable in equity.”
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.