Scott v. McEwing’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Colley v. Bazell (1980), BALK v. Ford Motor Co. (1971)
57 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 Fuel City Mfg. Co. v. Waynesburg Products Corp. · Commonwealth v. J. & A. Moeschlin, Inc. · National Finance Corp. v. Bergdoll · Thermo Water Lift Co. v. Air Tight Steel Tank Co.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . in trespass actions, no affidavit of defense being necessary, it appears to be the practice in cases where the equities are clear, that the court in its discretion may grant the petition to open the judgment without requiring the defendant to set forth the exact nature of his defense.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simonson v. Martin
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.