Abbott v. Seamon’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Pirtle v. Cook (1997), La Presto v. La Presto (1955)
27 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 Baysinger v. Hanser · Wiggins v. Perry · 236 Mo. App. 669 - Vaughn v. Kansas City Gas Co. · Columbia Terminals Co. v. Koeln · Huggins v. Johnston
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.
“The court had lost its jurisdiction of the case, but not of its records. It had authority, as well after as before the appeal, to amend its records according to the truth, so that they should accurately express the history of the proceedings which actually occurred prior to the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pirtle v. Cook
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.