Backer v. Eble’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1974
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.
Relationships
Relies on Gray v. Singer · Thomas v. Chicago & Erie Railway Co. · State ex rel. Work v. Brown · Ferger v. Wesler · Newman v. Hammond
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.
““It is true this court has often held that an appeal will lie from a void judgment. But this case does not fall within the purview of those decisions.” (emphasis supplied) 144 Ind. at 289, 43 N.E. at 234 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The thing called a judgment here does not purport to be the judgment of a court. The most that can be said of it is that it is a special finding on which no judgment has been rendered by the court.””
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.