Merrill v. Plainfield’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Board of Commissioners v. Markle (1874), Kellogg v. School District No. 10 Comanche Co. (1903)
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Stetson v. Kempton · Murch v. Concord Railroad · Pike v. Middleton · Gove v. Epping · Wadsworth v. Town of Henniker
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the duties are imposed specifically by statute on the officer, and the town has no duty to perform, no right to defend, and no direct interest to protect,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moulton v. Beals“not as the agents or servants of the town.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moulton v. Beals
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.