Craig v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1947
15 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 Houston v. Williams · Popijoy v. Miller · Barnett v. Bryce Furnace Co. · Davis v. Cox
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every case reversed by the Appellate Court an opinion shall be given on the material questions therein in writing and the appropriate judgment shall be entered with directions to the lower court,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Supreme Court shall, upon the decision of every case, give a statement in writing of each question arising in the record of such case and the de- • cisión of the court thereon.””
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.