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Irvin v. . Harris’s Empirical Analysis

1921

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
4
states following
February 2004
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2004

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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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.

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.

  1. “The doctrine of election applies only where two or more existing remedies are alternative and inconsistent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in Its Corporate Capacity, Plaintiff v. M.F. Crouch, Clifford E. Hemingway, and Mary Hemingway
  2. “in some writing signed by the party to be charged.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Phillips v. . Giles

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.