Thorndike’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2010
2 district · 15 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 Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Exporters of Manufacturers' Products, Inc. v. Butterworth-Judson Co. · Lonergan v. American Railway Express Co. · Noble v. Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Co. · Bar Ass'n v. Casey
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That order presents no error in the circumstances here disclosed. `The policy of the law requires that litigation be terminated within a reasonable time and not protracted at the mere option of the parties,' or of one of them.... Boston Bar Association v. Casey, 227 Mass. 46, 48-49 .... The court has power to protect its records from irrelevant, unimportant or superfluous papers and to take rational steps to end litigation. This order was directed to that end and was warranted.”
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.