Raper v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1943
20 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 Newell v. Newell
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.
““Having placed their defense on title in themselves, and not on the alleged consent of Harrison, and it being manifest that demand would have been vain and unavailing, they cannot now insist upon a want of demand for their failure to surrender the property; and therefore the refusal of the court to charge that a demand was essential to the maintenance of the action was not erroneous.” (p. 245.)”
1 later decision 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.