English v. Smock’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Ellingham v. Dye (1912), Board of Commissioners v. Markle (1874)
38 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Martin v. Mott · James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy · Watson v. Sutherland
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is not enough that there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or in other words as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration as the remedy in equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Newton
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.