Schell v. Leander Clark College’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.2d 17 · 1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1956
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Bradfield v. Roberts · Helm v. Zarecor · Brown v. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. · Jones v. Missouri-Edison Electric Co. · Rogers v. Penobscot Mining Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The vice of multifariousness is the union of causes of action which, or of parties whose claims, it is either impractical or inconvenient to hear and adjudicate in a single suit. Where this vice does not exist * * * the pleading is not multifarious, and it should be sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Mater
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.