Scarborough v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1951 · most notably Stone v. Case (1912), Weston v. . Stoddard (1893)
1 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Hickey v. Hinsdale
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Joinder of Actions. — The plaintiff may unite several causes of action in the same petition, whether they be such as have heretofore been denominated legal or equitable, or both, where they all arise out of either one of the following classes: 1. The same transaction, or transactions, connected with the same subject of action. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Case““ * * * Whatever may be done by one person which affects another’s rights, and out of which a cause of action may arise,” is a “transaction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Case
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.