Doyle v. . Carney’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1934
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDoyle v. Carney
Relationships
Relies on Van Cott v. . Prentice
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.
““if the original plaintiff could not sustain the action, the statute (section 723, Code Civ. Proc.), does not authorize an amendment of the pleading which adds the name of a person who was, as to tlio original cause of action, a stranger in the eye of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hannum v. Jerome
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.