Sawyer v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
3
states following
July 2005
most recently cited
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Hoffman v. Hoffman (1928), City of Geneseo v. Illinois Northern Utilities Co. (1941)
22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSawyer v. Nelson
Relationships
Relies on Russell v. Place · Sarah v. Read · Kitson v. Farwell
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.