Leech v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Porter v. Com. (2008), Eure v. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. (2002)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Burch v. Grace Street Building Corp. · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Rison · Arwood v. Hill's Administrator · Clark v. Kimnach · Canada v. C. H. Beasley & Bros.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] litigant is estopped from taking a position which is inconsistent with one previously assumed ... in the course of litigation for the same cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`A [litigant] shall not be allowed to approbate and reprobate at the same time.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.