Merolevitz’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2015
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 Smith v. . United States Casualty Co. · Reinken v. Reinken · William Gilligan Co. v. Casey · Crompton v. Williams · Rand v. Farquhar
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]t common law a person may change his name at will, without resort to legal proceedings, by merely adopting another name, provided that this is done for an honest purpose.” A person may be known by, and use, more than one name, and the business he transacts under such names will be valid and binding if unaffected by fraud.”
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.