State ex rel. Long v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably Stith v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1952), Wright v. Osborn (1947)
92 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 Hall v. Manufacturers Coal & Coke Co. · Wojtylak v. Kansas & Texas Coal Co. · Gay v. Gillilant · State ex rel. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Ellison · State v. Herrell
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We deal only with that record, and not with the case proper on its merits or demerits. . . .We have quashed a part of the opinion and sustained the remainder of the opinion and the judgment, because the reason assigned in the unquashed portion of the opinion made the judgment right, but this is as far as we have ever gone. . . . If we quash the record of the Court of Appeals we have no right to tell that court what to do when it undertakes to make a new record in the case. It will be presumed that upon questions ruled, such court will follow our rulings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case at bar (according to the ruling of the Court of Appeals), the instruction which directed a verdict for plaintiff left out of consideration one of the vital facts necessary to be found before a recovery could be had, and when such occurs in an instruction purporting to cover the whole case, as here, an instruction for defendant requiring a finding of that fact does not cure the plaintiff's instruction, but conflicts therewith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not necessary for us to find that there is such defect in the instruction . The Court of Appeals says there is such defect, and violates our rule when it says it was cured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.