Shirley v. Birch’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1961
20 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 Day v. Holland · Hobbs v. Duff · Lillienthal v. Caravita · Oliver v. Harvey · Poppleton v. Nelson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Commencing an action or suit in a Circuit Court, and conducting it to a final termination there, and taking an appeal to review a judgment or decree in this court, are distinct proceedings. The first one is to recover a judgment or decree. The second one is to revise a judgment or decree. The latter proceeding combines the nature of both appeal and writ of error as heretofore known; but in its operation and effect is more in the nature of the latter than of the former. Its office is to correct errors, including both errors of law and findings of fact. “A writ of error was always regarded as a new proceeding.” (Italics ours.) Shirley v. Burch, 16 Or. 1, 5 , 18 P. 344, 346 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mignot v. Mignot
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.