Fletcher v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2018
14 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 Barrett v. Smith · Wakefield v. . Fargo · Aikin v. . Wasson · Robinson v. . Wiley · State Ex Rel. v. M. St. P. S. S. M. Ry. 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of stare decisis is never properly invoked unless in the decision put forward as precedent the judicial mind has been applied to and passed upon the precise question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Losh
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.