Clark v. Dales’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1962 · most notably Ivey v. Kern County Land Co. (1896), Campbell v. Beard (1905)
27 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 Mactier's Administrators v. Frith · Blood v. Goodrich · Allen v. Crofoot · Esmond v. Van Benschoten · Erwin v. Saunders
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have now, indeed, a large discretion in amending pleadings, so as to conform them to the facts of the case as disclosed by the evidence, and we have not unfrequently exercised this power at a General Term, even where no motion to amend had been made upon the trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.