Leigeber v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1987
2 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 Carwile v. Crump · Box v. Box · Jacobs v. Murphy · O'Rear v. O'Rear · Harris v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * King's conveyances to his grantees were warranty deeds and he likewise should be made a party to a bill to cancel them. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denson v. Foote“all persons whose interest in the subject matter, legal or equitable, will be immediately or consequently affected by the decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all persons who are legally or beneficially interested in the subject matter of a suit in equity, are necessary parties.”
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.