Todd v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably Hamra v. Fitzpatrick (1916), Parks v. Haynes (1915)
30 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 Weber v. Kirkendall · Boynton v. Crockett · Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Adams · Duff v. Fisher · Choctaw Electric Co. v. Clark
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The extraordinary power thus recognized to exist should be exercised sparingly, and, we may add, upon due notice to the parties, or at the time when the verdict is rendered. This, that the losing litigant may have timely opportunity to except, and, if desirous, appeal from 'the court’s action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is based upon the substantial principles of right and wrong, to be exercised . . . for the furtherance of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mannah v. Robinson
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.