Reynolds v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2024
2 district · 12 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 Ferguson v. . Crawford · Nelson Shelton v. Clayton Tiffin · Ely v. Wilcox · Wiley v. Pratt · Dobbins v. Dupree
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mischief that might follow from holding that the acts of the unauthorized attorney are conclusive upon the person for whom he appears, would induce the court to hesitate long before it would establish such a rule. It would in some degree subject the property of every individual in the community to the mistakes or malice of a particular class of men.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hatfield v. Lewis
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.