Sweetser v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2007
6 federal appellate · 15 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 Gordon v. Gilfoil · McKannay v. Horton · Wright v. . Nostrand · Feeney v. Hinckley · Oneida County Bk. v. . Bonney
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.
“cause of action on a judgment ... arises as soon as the judgment has a legal existence, which is immediately upon its rendition”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the statute of limitations is set in motion at that time”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.