Jackson v. Putman’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1959 · most notably Julian v. Woolbert (1919), Humphrey v. Humphrey (1950)
25 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 Lucas v. Bank of Darien · American Freehold Land Mortgage Co. v. Pollard · Clark v. Zeigler · Preston v. Dunn · Perdue v. Brooks Bros.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The names of parties must appear in the bill; and though named in the bill, none can be regarded as parties defendant against whom process is not prayed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Baines
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.