Eaton v. Mudge’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1933
5 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 Bolthouse v. De Spelder · Ashley v. Smith's Estate · Slack v. Norton · Finn v. Sowders' Estate
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled by authority that as to that part of the claim represented by plaintiff’s services, Henry Eaton, her husband, would be a competent witness under the statute to testify in her behalf. This is upon the ground that as to her services he is not an assignor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werner v. Wegusen
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.