Batchelor v. Walburn’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2019
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff in an action to recover the possession of specific personal property, may at the commencement of the suit, or at any time before answering, claim the immediate delivery of such property as provided in this chapter.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It may be that a different rule obtains before a justice of the peace, for there it is provided that the action shall not be brought until the affidavit is filed, and that no summons shall issue until bond is given.” (p; 737.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woodworth v. Maddox
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.