Seilert v. McAnally’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1982
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 Vogler v. Montgomery
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.
“However hard the case, we may not spoil the symmetry of the law. . . . `It is the duty of all courts of justice to take care, for the general good of the community, that hard cases do not make bad law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oldham v. Wright““So the title to personal property belonging to the ward (absent and express trust) is not vested in his guardian . . . but in the ward.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Hembree
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.