Wade v. . Strever’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1941
7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWade v. Strever
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. . Volkening · Walker v. American Central Insurance · Bank of Orleans v. Flagg · Metropolitan Trust Co. v. Tonawanda Valley & Cuba Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This decision seems to have been based upon the theory that the plaintiff, by not replying to the defendant Miller’s answer, admitted all its allegations, and judgment in her favor was awarded against the plaintiff, while the action was suspended as to the other defendants. We think this disposition of the case was unjustified and erroneous. It is difficult to understand how, upon any correct theory, the issues thus joined could be disposed of without permitting the plaintiff to prove the facts she alleged. The defendants were proper parties, and the question of the priority of the mortgages was directly at issue. The failure to serve a reply did not admit the defendant’s denial, nor any allegation of new matter in defense or contradiction of the facts alleged in the complaint.””
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.