Force v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1992
2 district · 12 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 Whitaker v. Douglas · Staab v. Staab · Southard v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n · Pratt v. Barnard · Deming v. Douglass
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A demurrer cannot serve to bring additional facts into a petition which might constitute a defense thereto. In ruling on a demurrer to a petition a court is not justified in reaching out and making additional facts a part of the petition. The inquiry is to be limited to the allegations themselves.” (Syl. IT 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Babcock v. Dose
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.