Ernst v. Steamer’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2019
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 Cord v. Southwell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice by which a party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense; every other remedy is a special proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the necessary and ordinary steps or proceedings taken in an action to conduct it to a final hearing and judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It may not be easy in all cases to determine what is a special proceeding.”
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.