Nelson v. Boe’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1974
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 Snodgrass v. Branch Bank at Decatur · Manchuria S. S. Co. v. Harry G. G. Donald & Co. · Leach, Harrison & Forwood v. Bush · Whilden & Sons v. Merchants' & Planters' National Bank · Foster v. State
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.
““In the absence of a demurrer — as is the case here — if the complaint contains a substantial cause of action, and the judgment is responsive to it, the appellant will not be heard to complain of errors or defects in the complaint which would have subjected it to demurrer. The court will, in construing the averments of a complaint in actions at law, ‘adopt a liberal construction, and if by treating all amendable defects as amended it appears from the facts stated, whether well or illy pleaded, a substantial cause of action is stated, then it is sufficient to sustain the judgment’ [Citations omitted.] And we see no good reason why the same rule would not apply in equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yeargin v. Donnelly
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.