Clawson v. Primrose’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1967
11 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 Parker & Edgarton v. Foote · Mahan v. Brown · Cherry v. Stein · Pierre v. Fernald · Gerber v. Grabel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The common law of England, as well as so much of the statute law as has been heretofore adopted in practice in this state, shall remain in force, unless they shall be altered by a future law of the Legislature; such parts only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and privileges contained in this Constitution and the declaration of rights, * * * agreed to by this convention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sobolewski v. German““By the common law was of course meant the common law of England as it then stood, so far as it was applicable to the circumstances of the people, and was not repugnant,- as the constitution expresses it, ‘to the rights and-privileges contained in that instrument and the declaration of rights’ ” included in it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynch v. Hill
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.