Adderton v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1931
9 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 Keithley v. May
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defense made by Mary and Sarah, which resulted in a verdict and judgment for them, was not based wpon any ground personal to themselves, but was equally available by the other defendants, and tvas such as showed that the plaintiff had no cause of action. And it is the settled lato in such cases that, after verdict and judgment for the defendant who pleads, the plaintiff cannot take judgment against the defendants’in default, for the reason that upon the whole record it appears the plaintiff had no right of action.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.