Powell v. Heisler’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2019
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The counsel for the defendant insists that its proper exercise is limited to cases where the party is free from negligence. That if he possessed the means of information, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence could have obtained the knowledge, the court will^not relieve him. But we think in this class of cases, involving mistakes, arising from an alleged want of proper diligence, the jurisdiction will in a great measure depend upon the particular facts and circumstances surrounding the transaction.””
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.