Efner v. Ketteringham’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Hernandez v. Harson (1959), Tanner v. Tanner (1956)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Rhodes v. Collier · Meraux & Nunez, Inc. v. Gaidry · Burglass v. Villere · Alfano v. Franek · Whitney-Central Nat. Bank v. Sinnott
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * in those cases, it is apparent that little or no consideration was given to the general rule that attorneys’ fees are not recoverable in civil actions as a reading of the opinions will disclose that the Court simply assumed that an allowance for fees of counsel was proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Welsh
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.