Piatt v. Realty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1986
10 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 Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Co. v. Gordon · Board of Education ex rel. Philip Carey Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Strottman v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Lawrence v. Shreve · Allen v. Hickam
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Voluntary dismissal — New Trial. 1. A plaintiff shall be allowed to dismiss his action without prejudice at any time before the same is finally submitted to the jury, or to the court sitting as a jury, or to the court, and not afterward. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiff's case was not under final submission at the time he dismissed it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fenton v. Thompson
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.