Clevenger v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1946
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Fisher v. Tuller · Voris v. State xe rel. Davis · Stevens v. Tucker · Blair v. Allen · Cincinnati, Richmond, & Fort Wayne Railroad v. Heaston
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the right, then, that an unpaid creditor of the ancestor has to' pursue property in the hands of heirs is conferred by the following statute: [Quoting it.] The right here bestowed by the legislature, being in derogation of the common law, to be enjoyed, the plaintiff must bring himself, without excuse, fully within the conditions upon which the right rests.” Citing and quoting from Fisher v. Tuller, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuhrmann v. Seybold
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.