Schirling v. Scites’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1936
1 federal appellate · 6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The counsel for the plaintiffs in error insist that their plea was not an appearance for Wren, nor his plea; that the defendants in the plea meant only those who were legally served with process. We cannot agree with counsel in this view of the law. It is true that a mere recital in the record by the clerk, in the absence of a plea for the defendants, ‘that the defendants appeared by attorney, ’ will not constitute an appearance for those not served with process, and will not warrant a judgment against them. [Citing authorities.] But the law is very different where there is a general plea for the defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.