Sturgess v. Crum’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1979
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ham v. Hill · Rowsey v. Lynch
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff simply testified to an agreement by the defendant to pay certain of plaintiff’s debts, including the Dill note, and from this payment, in connection with the time fixed for the maturing of the new note given by plaintiff to defendant, it was to result that plaintiff would have the use of his mules and other property to raise a crop.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dill v. Crum
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.