Lips v. Royal Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Charbonnet v. State Realty Co. (1923), Sliman v. Araguel (1941)
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 Geisenberger v. Cotton · Wolf v. Royal Ins. · Barton v. Burbank
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.
“"* * * But clearly by a step in the prosecution of a suit is meant something done in court towards the progress of the suit in court; and a withdrawing of the record by counsel, with or without permission of the court, is merely something for the convenience of counsel, and is not a step forwarding the progress of the case in court."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whenever the plaintiff having made his demand shall at any time before obtaining final judgment allow five years to elapse without having taken any steps in the prosecution thereof, he shall be considered as having abandoned the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sliman v. Araguel
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.