Nix v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1974
4 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 Lockhart v. Lockhart · Smith v. Lyon Cypress Co. · Andirac v. Richardson · Loftin v. Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. · Ransonet v. Menard
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden, therefore, of keeping the suit alive is laid upon the plaintiff and not upon the attorney he employs. If he allows five years to elapse without taking any steps, he is considered as having abandoned his case. If we should hold that a plaintiff is not responsible for such neglect on account of the death of his attorney we would read into the law something which is not there. Where the law is plain courts cannot deviate from it.”
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.