Lace v. Fixen’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1939
13 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 Greenleaf v. Egan · Campbell v. Jones · Walker v. Johnson · Ayres v. O'Farrell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proper way to raise the question whether a cause of action is the subject of counterclaim is by demurrer. . . . By failing to demur on this ground, the plaintiff waived all objection to the answer as a counterclaim. ... We think confusion has sometimes arisen by failure to distinguish between a case where the 'counterclaim’ fails to state a cause of action and a case where, although it states a good cause of action, it is one which is not the subject of counterclaim under the statute. Of course, in the first case the defect can be taken advantage of at any time, even after judgment, precisely as if it were set up in a complaint. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingersoll v. Clapp
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.