Cameron v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1983
19 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““2d. The second ground, which hinges upon the absence of the defendant herself, presents a question somewhat. novel in our jurisprudence, and hence we have given the subject a great deal of reflection and study, including a thorough examination of all our reports on the question of continuance of cases. It is to be noted that our present Code of Practice has been adopted since the enactment of the law under which parties to suits are entitled to testify in their own behalf, and that it contains no provisions on the subject of continuance of causes which could, under any construction, possibly apply to the testimony of parties to the suit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Plaintiff had not been subpoenaed as a witness, and there was no process by which her attendance could have been compelled. If she had intended to be heard in her own behalf, she should have been present to testify when the time came. * * * The question is whether she had the right to have the case postponed in order to give her an opportunity of being heard. She unquestionably had not the right, and the judge did not therefore err in refusing to continue or postpone the case on account of her absence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillentine v. McLeod““ * * * The judge in his discretion must deal with each particular case as it presents itself; and we repeat that his discretion will not be disturbed, except in extreme cases. This Coúrt has gone to a great length in upholding district judges on similar rulings in the trial of cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillentine v. McLeod
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.