Ferguson v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1915
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Haines v. McKinnon · Dayton v. Board of Equalization · Southern Oregon Co. v. Coos Co. · Corbell v. Childers · Litchfield v. Daniels
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court’s jurisdiction of tbe subject matter of an action is determined, in the first instance from an inspection of the allegations of a complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Marvin
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.