Alexander v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably 152 Ind. App. 365 - Hunter v. Hunter (1972), Brown v. Brown (1956)
36 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 Carmel Natural Gas & Improvement Co. v. Small · Wright v. Moody · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Bodenschatz · Orth v. Orth · Ice v. Ball
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No fraud is charged from beginning to end, and no such a state of facts pleaded as calls for the interposition of a court of equity to prevent the failure of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Brown
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.