Nill v. Comparet’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably 157 Ind. App. 236 - Estate of Nye v. First National Bank (1973), Central Union Telephone Co. v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners (1887)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Cole v. Conolly
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only effect of an appeal to a court of error, when perfected, is to stay execution upon the judgment from which it is taken. In all other respects, * * * until annulled or reversed, it stands binding upon the parties as to every question directly decided.””
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.