Flowers v. Germann’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2015
17 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 Harper v. Carroll · State v. Timmens · Thompson v. Bickford · Ludowese v. Amidon · Niles v. Cooper
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * But here the action has been tried on its merits. The court has considered and determined all opposing claims of the parties directly involved. We believe it is not for us to erect mere procedural hurdles or barriers to a final determination of all issues presented, so that there may be finality as to the present parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If no such objection is made the defect will be deemed waived. And there is no distinction as to such defect between parties plaintiff and defendant”
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.