Potts v. . Dounce’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1972
17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPotts v. Baldwin
Relationships
Relies on Barnes v. . Brown · Richardson v. . Draper · Grant v. Shurter · Randall v. . Sackett · Trowbridge v. . Trowbridge
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To hold otherwise would be to lose sight of an essential distinction between the engagement of a joint debtor and that of a joint and several debtor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.