Reller v. Ankeny’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Cacek v. Munson (1955), Sinnett v. Albert (1972)
29 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 Bradley v. Fisher · Spalding v. Vilas · Pargoud v. United States · Ripley v. Godden · Gibson v. Koutsky-Brennan-Vana Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An exhibit made a part of a pleading by direct allegation to that effect is a part thereof .... The contents of such an exhibit prevail over any allegation of the pleading that is inconsistent therewith and such an exhibit may be considered by the court without reference to the legal effect thereof as alleged in the pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A litigant may not effectively complain of a course of action he induced or in which he concurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillespie v. Hynes
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.