Paine v. Drew’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1966
15 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on March v. Eastern Railroad · Ruggles v. Keeler · In re the case of Yates · Murray's v. Baker · In re Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The word ‘absent’, when used as a verb, as in the sentence ‘to absent himself’, implies prior presence. So the word ‘absentee’ means one who withdraws or has removed from his country, State, or home. But the word ‘absence’, though primarily it may have supposed prior presence, yet, in common usage, simply means a state of being away from or at a distance from, not in company with. 'And the word ‘absent’, when used as an adjective in common and ordinary use, simply means, not present, and refers only to the condition or situation of the person or thing spoken of at the time of speaking, without any allusion or reference to any prior situation or condition of the same person or thing * (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.