Armstrong v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1982
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We know of no process by which a court can bind itself to give the plaintiff a judgment when his complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. This is an objection which, like an objection to the jurisdiction of the court, may be made at any time during the progress of the trial. It is not, as in most other cases of defective complaints, waived by the failure of the defendant to take .the objection by demurrer or answer. R. S., chap. 125, sec. 9. Besides, we are inclined to the opinion that the order overruling the demurrer is within sec. 6, ch. 264, Laws of 1860, which provides that ‘upon an appeal from a judgment, the supreme court may review an intermediate order involving the merits and necessarily affecting the judgment.’ ””
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.