Epps v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1999
1 district · 11 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 Coffin v. . Reynolds · Stuart v. Hamilton · Balch v. . N.Y. and Oswego Midland R.R. Co. · Washburn v. Goodheart · Good v. Fogg
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem that the same policy which dictates a liberal construction of the statute in furtherance of its general beneficial purpose would necessitate a restricted construction of an exception by which its operation is limited and abridged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Beal · In Re Fishman
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.