Proctor v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1908
13 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 Guard v. Risk · Drummond v. Leslie · Ausman v. Veal · Shields v. Cunningham · Smawley v. Stark
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.
““ The words proven being actionable in themselves, the defendant was not injured by proof that the witness understood them in an actionable sense. Hence, we need not decide whether the testimony was admissible, the error, if error was committed, being harmless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabe v. McGinnis
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.