Renick v. Ludington’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1937
1 district · 23 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 Skillern's Executors v. May's Executors · Slocum & Collins v. McBride & Lord · Burlew v. Quarrier · J. B. Campbell's ex'ors v. A. C. Campbell's ex'or · Western M. & M. Co. v. Virginia Cannel Coal 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of these is a principle admitted in all courts upon questions affecting the suitor’? person and liberty, as well as property, namely, that the rights of no man shall be finally decided in a court óf justice unless he himself was present, or at least unless he has had a full opportunity to appear and vindicate, his rights. Another is that, when a decision is made upon any particular subject, the rights of all persons whose interests are immediately connected with that decision, and affected by it, shall be provided for, as far as they reasonably may.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holsberry v. Poling
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.