Duffy v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1977
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Whitwell v. Warner · First National Bank of Las Vegas v. Oberne · Ela v. American Merchants' Union Express Co. · Steuerwald v. Richter · Fay v. Slaughter
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.
““. . . softens the rigor of sec. 263.31, and renders it inapplicable in cases where evidence received without objection and not denied and not claimed to be subject to refutation, constitutes a cause of action other than that stated in the complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.