Jackson v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1956
11 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second question was decided in Byers v. Engles, 16 Ark. 543 . True, in that case the chief justice dissented, but he was overruled by a majority of tlu; court, and the case having stood unreversed for about twenty years, repeatedly followed, and involving a rule relating to title of real property, wo are disposed to treat it as settled law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. Davis““The appellants were in possession of the lands as tenants of Irene. The appellees had the right to sue the tenants or the lessor,, or both, and the lessor might have been, made defendant, on her motion, or on the motion of her guardian.””
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.