Meeker v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1927
15 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 Arkansas Val Land Cattle Co v. Mann · Morse v. Sherman · Graff v. Fitch · Foster v. Ropes · Waldman v. Broder
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.
““This is evidently the object of our statute, to combine the actions of replevin and trover, and to adjudicate in one action all the questions involved, and which are necessary to completely determine and settle the matter in controversy. This is the general policy of the law, and such a construction will be put upon a statute whenever its terms will permit. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although the technical action of replevin has been abolished by statutes in many of the states, and, strictly speaking, cannot be said to exist in any of them, an action for the recovery of specific personal property is recognized in nearly all of them, and, generally, all the remedies formerly secured to parties by the action of replevin and trover may be had in a single action of replevin or its statutory equivalent under another name, to recover a chattel, or its value, and damages for its detention;””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armour v. Seixas“‘ ‘ In America, also, it is well settled that if by the terms of the contract anything is to be done by the vendor, by way of finishing the goods, or getting them ready for delivery (not now speaking of weighing, measuring or counting merely) the title does not pass until this is done, unless the contrary intention clearly appears from the terms of the sale, the language and conduct of the parties, as applied to known usages, and the subject matter of the contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.