Le Clare v. Thibault’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1937
16 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 Cederson v. Oregon Navigation Co. · Mitchell v. Holman · Keightley v. Walls · Willis v. Crawford · Burrage v. Bonanza Gold & Quicksilver Mining Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An answer setting up a counterclaim must contain the substantial requisites of a complaint, and allege facts which legally entitle the defendant to recover in a suit instituted by him for that purpose against the plaintiff; and, if his pleading omits any allegation that would be necessary to state a cause of suit, it will be vulnerable to a demurrer interposed on that ground. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) A cause of action arising out of the contract, or transaction set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff’s claim; (2) in an action arising on contract, any other cause of action arising also on contract, and existing at the commencement of the action.” Section 74, B. & C. Comp.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. McLench
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.