Sullivan v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1936
16 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 Fisher v. Fisher · Haley v. Western Transit Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition stating a good cause of action, it was error for the court below to sustain a motion to dismiss the cause and render judgment against the plaintiff upon the opening statement of his counsel. ‘Such a motion will not be granted merely because counsel fails to state in his opening statement facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In this case it (the opening statement) was not preserved, so we have no means of knowing upon what facts the court granted a nonsuit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacKey v. Boswell
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.