Arnold v. Nye’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1945 · most notably Muncie National Bank v. Brown (1887), Driscoll v. People (1882)
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An attorney of the court assumed to answer for the defendant, and consented, in writing, that judgment might be entered against him. We must assume, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, that he was duly authorized, and it is not necessary for us to say in this case how the judgment would be affected by evidence that in fact the attorney had appeared in the case without authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harniska v. Dolph
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.