Ford v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1989
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Casper v. Lee · Lins v. Lenhardt · Therrien v. Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. · Cleary v. Cleary · Selleck v. Hawley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question now before us is not whether the trial court should have fully ruled these two other questions but whether we should now do so. As said by the Supreme Court in Lins v. Lenhardt, 127 Mo. 271 , 29 S.W. 1025, 1027 , ‘When an equity cause comes up to this court, it is for hearing de novo, and it will be considered for the most part as if it had originated here, and was to be heard for the first time.’ ” 298 S.W.2d at 507 [7],”
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.