Foote v. . Lathrop’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1962
23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hence it follows that by substantial right is to be understood such rights only as are to be determined as pure questions of law; such only as can be demanded as the strict legal right of the party. This view, applied to the present case, requires the appellant to show that she had an absolute right to have the judgment set aside as to her.'’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Kennamer
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.