Martin v. Crow’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1965
19 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until a final judgment is rendered in the court below, this court has no jurisdiction of the cause. When the whole of the matter in controversy is finally disposed of as to all the parties, then there is a final judgment," and not before, from which an appeal or writ of error can be taken.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The judgment rendered in the cause against M. M. and L. M. Martin can only be held as interlocutory, and yet subject to the action and control of the District Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kline v. Power
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.