Cole v. Armour’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably Westerman v. City of Carlsbad (1951), Koons v. St. Louis Car Co. (1907)
5 federal appellate · 64 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 Huston v. Tyler · Groll v. Tower · Smith v. Shell · Sumner v. Rogers · Feurth v. Anderson
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff sued on a special contract, and therefore he must recover upon that or not at all .in this action. . . . This is true notwithstanding the evidence may show that the plaintiff had a perfectly good cause of action which was not sued on. The defendant is only required to meet the case stated in the pleadings, and if a right of action not stated in the petition is developed by the evidence, still the defendant is not called on to rebut or refute such testimony or to contest such unpleaded rights. It jls enough for him to fight the case brought, and it will be time»,enough to defend against any other cause of action than that stated in the pleadings, when he is charged therewith, has pleaded thereto, and prepared for the trial thereof.””
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.