Creason v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1988
2 federal appellate · 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 Hogan v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Murphy v. Barron · Marlow v. Nafziger Baking Co. · Hunter v. Hunter · Davidson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it is remanded generally all issues are open to consideration on a new trial. . . . Where the reversal is with specific directions as to certain issues, other issues determined are foreclosed to further inquiry. The first states the law of the case,' the second is res adjudicata *Page 473 final.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.