Van Dewater v. Gear’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 1999
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weaver v. . Barden · Moses v. . McDivitt · Dyett v. . Hyman · Beaty v. Swarthout · McKinley v. . Bowe
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evil against which the statute was directed was the purchase of claims for the sole purpose of making costs and annoying persons who would not be sued under other circumstances . . . . It was only the abuse of purchasing with the intent and for the purpose of bringing the action that the attorney might be benefited by the costs which his own action had produced which the Legislature prohibited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here must exist an intent to obtain title for the purpose of commencing an action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.