Greenway v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 1936 · most notably Young v. Glascock (1883), Ess v. Griffith (1897)
42 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a cause of a el ion which once existed has been determined by some matter which subsequently transpired, such new matter must, to comply with the statute, bo specially pleaded; but, where the cause of action alleged never existed, the appropriate defense under the law is a general denial of the material allegations of the petition; and such facts as tend to disprove the controverted allegations are pertinent to the issue.””
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.