Boddiker v. McPartlin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 157 Ill. 2d 484 - Torcasso v. Standard Outdoor Sales, Inc. (1993), 106 Ill. 2d 290 - In Re Marriage of Freeman (1985)
5 federal appellate · 47 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 Hairgrove v. City of Jacksonville · South Park Commissioners v. S. Karpen & Bros. · Fox v. Fox · C., B. Q. R. R. Co. v. Commerce Com. · Pillsbury v. Early
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if it be conceded that plaintiffs should have filed a counterclaim for partition [in that action,] there was no imperative duty on their part to do so”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Subject to rules any plaintiff or plaintiffs may join any causes of action, whether legal or equitable or both, against any defendant or defendants ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could, as she did, reserve her right to file a complaint for partition at a later date.”
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.