Trower v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1944
19 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 Shutte v. Thompson · Northern Pacific Railroad v. Urlin · The Mechanics Bank of Alexandria v. Louisa Seton · Alcorn v. Dennis · Culp v. Steere
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court may, before or after judgment, in furtherance of justice, and on such terms as .may be proper, amend any pleading, process or proceeding by adding or striking out the name of any party, or correcting a mistake in the name of a party, or a mistake in any other respect, or by inserting other allegations material to the case, or conform the pleading or proceeding to the facts proved, when such amendment does not change substantially the claim. or defense; and when any proceeding fails to conform, in any respect, to the provisions of this Code, the court may permit the same to be made conformable thereto by amendment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Penn v. Penn
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.