Pritchard v. Downie’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2010
8 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Sibbach v. Wilson & 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not provide for the survival of rights or liabilities but merely provides the method by which the original action may proceed if the right of action survives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a party dies and the claim is not thereby extinguished, the court within 2 years after the death may order substitution of the proper parties. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Downie v. Pritchard
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.