Lawe v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2005
24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction has been so slight that it has sometimes been a nice question of construction whether the pleading be an answer proper or a counterclaim, or both in one. But aside from all rules of construction, the statute itself appears not only to make a counterclaim a pleading to the complaint, but to make it essentially an answer in all cases; for it requires the answer to set up new matters constituting defense or counterclaim. Whatever may be its effect by way of cross-action, it is certainly a pleading to the complaint. And the old rule that demurrers reach back to the first' defective pleading still applies where the complaint discloses want of jurisdiction or fails to state a cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.