Berry v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1955 · most notably Daniels v. Bruce (1911), Stair v. Meissel (1934)
36 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 Burkett v. Holman · Scherer v. Ingerman · Baker v. State ex rel. Mills · Crume v. Wilson · Bass v. Elliott
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It has been held by this court also that an action ‘is any judicial proceeding which, conducted to a termination, will result in a judgment,’ and that a civil action ‘is an action wherein an issue is presented for trial, formed by the averments of the complaint, and the denials of the answer, or the replication to new matter, and the trial takes place by the introduction of legal evidence to support the allegations of the pleadings, and a judgment in such an action is conclusive upon the rights of the parties, and could be plead in bar.’ Evans V. Evans, 105 Ind. 204 , citing Deer Lodge Co. v. Kohrs, 2 Mon. 66 , 70.” (Our italics.)”
2 later decisions 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.