Closson v. Staples’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Brault v. Town of Milton (1975), Gregory v. Chambers (1883)
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court will, after a verdict, presume or intend that the particular thing which appears to be defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted in the pleading was proved at the trial, and such an intendment must arise, not merely from the verdict, but from the united effect of the verdict and the issue upon which such verdict was given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hodgson
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.