Linders v. Linders’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably In Re Adoption of CMBR (2011), Johnson v. Flex-O-Lite Manufacturing Corporation (1958)
67 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 Rice v. Waddill · Sutorius v. Mayor · Meyers v. East End Loan & Savings Ass'n · Schwind v. O'Halloran · Merz v. Tower Grove Bank & Trust 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Since the office of .the pleadings is to define and to isolate the issues to those controverted so as to advise the trial court and the parties of the issues to be tried and to expedite the trial of a cause on the merits, the absence of a formal pleading traversing the allegations of the answer should not be considered prejudicial to a party defendant who understood what issues were being tried.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he presumption is that the court, in weighing the evidence, was governed by correct rules of law.”
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.