Whiteley v. Schoenlein’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2007
14 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 Vincent v. Palmer · Hendrickson v. Standard Oil Co. · Hill v. Pinder · Morgart v. Smouse · Petrie v. Torrent
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.
““As to the contention that the complainant nowhere states the basis of his belief that there was a substantial profit and that this is a mere conclusion of the pleader, the bill does allege that the defendants have custody of all the records and have failed to make an accounting. The rule requiring positiveness of pleading is relaxed so as to permit an allegation on information and belief where the fact is not presumably within the knowledge of the plaintiff but is within that of the defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pendleton v. State““. . . it is not necessary to state minutely all the circumstances which may conduce to prove the general charge. These circumstances are properly matters of evidence.””
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.