Harris v. Sparrow’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1976
7 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 Brunner v. Cook · Lakeside Inn Corp. v. Commonwealth
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.
““The jury having found for the plaintiff and the learned judge of the trial court who heard and observed the witnesses having overruled the motion for a new trial, we do not find from the evidence that the complainant’s case is so without support that this court would be justified in overruling the decision of the trial court upon the motion to set aside the verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doughty v. Thornton
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.