Funkhouser v. Million’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2012
9 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 Covington Virginian, Inc. v. Woods · Ashby v. Bell's Adm'r · Chappell v. Smith · Carpenter v. Gray
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our present practice and procedure in actions at law, the effect of the failure of a defendant to plead within the time prescribed ... is that he cannot defend on the merits of the case and he admits that plaintiff is entitled to recover some damages, however small.”
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.