Meshek v. Cordes’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Enders v. Longmire (1937), Eaton v. Weaver Manufacturing Co. (1978)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 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 Ketterman v. Dry Fork Railroad Co. · Stone v. Case · Brookshire v. Burkhart · Miles v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n · Myers v. the First Presbyterian Church of Perry
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any action be commenced within due time and a judgment thereon for the plaintiff be reversed, or if the plaintiff fail in such action otherwise than upon the merits, and the time limited for the same shall have expired, the plaintiff, or if he dies, and the cause of action survive, his representatives may commence a new action within one year after reversal or failure.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any person may be made a defendant who has or claims an interest in the controversy adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party to a complete determination or settlement of the question involved therein.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘If it is doubtful whether or not allegations are such as to make a pleading demurrable for misjoinder that construction should be adopted which will sustain the pleading.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crossett v. Andrews
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.