Pelton v. Drummond’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1929
1 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The time within which an act is to be done as herein provided, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last; if the last be Sunday, it shall be excluded.” Section 1841, Oobbey’s Annotated Statutes of Nebraska,-1909.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No action shall be taken upon said application until at least two weeks’ notice of the filing of the same has been given by publication in a newspaper published in said county.””
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.