Walters v. Battenfield’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1955
6 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 Frisch v. Caler · Bolton v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Goddard v. Fulton · Churchill v. Baumann · Perkins v. Brock
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■!‘Affirmative allegations in the answer which are in effect only denials are not new matter, for, as we have just noted, new matter confesses and avoids either expressly or impliedly the cause of action set up in the complaint. So any matter which does not discharge or avoid a cause of action theretofore existing, but the purpose of which is to show that the alleged cause of action never did exist, and' that material allegations of the complaint are not true, is not new matter such as is required to be specially pleaded. That is not new matter in an answer which might have been shown under a general denial.””
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.