Middleton v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2009
6 federal appellate · 9 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 Middleton v. Middleton · Magruder v. Ericson · Carrs Fork Coal Co. v. Johnson Drug Co. · Middleton v. Middleton · Middleton v. Middleton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the case of an unliquidated claim, the allowance of interest rests in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case”
2 later decisions 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.