Rozier v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2007
18 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 Lambert v. Blumenthal · Hosford v. Merwin · Phillips v. Russell's Administrator
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The fact that the defendant is in possession of the premises, claiming to hold them adversely to the plaintiff, is, in general, a sufficient ground for denying a partition in a court of law; but when the question arises upon an equitable title set up by either of the parties the reason of the rule fails. When the questions are such as belong to a court of equity, there can be no reason for suspending the proceedings short of complete justice between the parties. ...”’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Pearson
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.