White v. Veitch’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1970
8 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 Boettler v. Tendick · Blyth & Fargo Co. v. Swensen Bros. · Kiphart v. Brennemen · Haskins v. Haskins · Eveleth v. Gill
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * When such complaint, fatally defective, and conferring no jurisdiction of the subject-matter on the justice, comes before the district court on appeal, it is like a lifeless body which that court is powerless to animate. Its effect is as though no complaint whatever had been filed, * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steffens v. Smith
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.