Silverberg v. Dearholt’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2001
2 district · 18 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 Seth v. Chamberlaine · Sunderland v. Braun Packing Co. · State v. Butler · Preston ex rel. Hamner v. McCann · Rutherford v. Pope
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the court struck out the [confessed] judgment, with leave to the defendant to plead within fifteen days. The court did not retain the hen. * * * * * * The appehant contended that the lower court should have retained the hen. That contention has no'force, because that also was a question entirely within the court’s discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.