Ex parte Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1963 · most notably Ex parte Phenix Insurance (1886), Hooper v. Bankhead & Bankhead (1911)
32 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 Ex parte Walker · Ex parte Smith · Gedney v. Inhabitants of Tewksbury · Pevey v. Sleight · State v. Judge of the Commercial Court of New Orleans
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bill may abound in imperfections, may be fatally-wanting in necessary averments, or may be instituted in a district in which the defendants were not liable to be sued. These, if they exist, are proper matters of defense, and cannot be reached by this extraordinary process.””
1 later decision 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.