Fellows v. Fellows’s Empirical Analysis
1825
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1938 · most notably Graves v. Corbin (1890), McDaniel v. Traylor (1905)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•The principle to bo deduced from those cases is that a bill against several persons must relate to matters of the same.) nature, and having a connection with cacli other, and in which all the defendants are more or less concerned, (hough tlieir rights in respect to the general subject of the case may be distinct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayden v. Thompson““Whore several persons, although unconnected with each other, are made defendants, a demurrer will not lie if they have a common interest centering in the point in issue in the cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayden v. Thompson
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.