Casper v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Barney v. Suggs (1985), In Re the Trust Under the Last Will & Testament of Jackson (1956)
159 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 Nettleton Bank v. Estate of McGauhey · Benjamin Harris v. William Hardeman · Cross v. Gould · Wooten v. Friedberg · State ex rel. Potter v. Riley
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 49 C.J.S. Judgments § 71, p. 189, the rule is stated: ‘Mere recitals are not indispensable parts of judgments. The judgment or decree does not reside in its recitals, but in the mandatory or decretal portion thereof, which adjudicates and determines the issues in the case and defines and settles the rights and interests of the parties as far as they relate to the subject matter of the controversy. * * * ’ It has also been held that if there is an inconsistency between the recitals and the decretal part of a judgment, an express adjudication controls mere recitals. 49 C.J.S. Judgments § 437, p. 870; Lackender v. Morrison, 231 Iowa 899 , 2 N.W.2d 286 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A default judgment was entered against respondent on October 5, 1949, setting aside the foreclosure sale and trustee’s deed. * * *. On December 7, 1949, more than thirty days after the entry thereof, respondent filed a motion to vacate and set aside the default judgment. After hearing, the motion was sustained; the judgment was set aside; and the case was ordered reinstated on the docket. After an unavailing motion for a new trial, appellant has taken this appeal from the order or judgment setting aside the judgment in favor of appellant. An appeal lies from such an order or judgment.” (Italics ours).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is obvious that the one not joined has no interest whatever in the subject matter”
2 later decisions 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.