Ex Parte Ashton’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Hutcheson v. Atherton (1940), Birmingham Bar Ass'n v. Phillips & Marsh (1940)
39 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 Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · Central Trust Co. v. McGeorge · Grimsley v. First Ave. Coal & Lumber Co. · Greek v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. · Williams v. Schwarz
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of the foregoing, and of the better considered general decisions, is that consolidation of different pending actions in the same court should not be granted when the result thereof is to bring about a complication of issues of fact, embarrassment or delay in the trial, difficulty to the parties, the jury, and the court to present or apply the law to the several tendencies of the evidence, or result in prejudice to the rights of the parties. (Citing cases.) It was no doubt the intent of the statute to liberalize the restrictive test of the common lav/, and was passed for application in a proper case, where the inconveniences, confusion, and injustices pointed out do not obtain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Miller““Whenever two or more actions are pending at the same time, between the same parties, in the same court, and which might have been joined, the court may order them to be consolidated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swearingen v. Archer
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.