Spellman v. Rhode’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1979
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 Ayotte v. Nadeau · Sheehy v. Flaherty
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.
““Besides, they were self-serving declarations of intention, which would not have been competent even upon the issue of title. The admission of this evidence was error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gremmert v. Minnie
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.