Wright v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1987
9 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 Judge of Probate v. Abbot · Caverly v. Jones · Bailey v. Kimball · Newman v. Williams
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At any time before the plaintiff opens his case to the jury he may become nonsuit as a matter of right. Tlio entry of his action does not oblige him to proceed with it. Even if issue be joined, this does not entitle the defendant to a verdict, if the plaintiff elect to abandon his action. After the plaintiff has proceeded to open his case to the jury he can no longer become non-suit as a matter of right. * * * But the court, in the exercise of its discretion, may permit him to become nonsuit at any time before the return of the verdict, and ordinarily does so, if it appears that no injustice will thereby be done to the adverse party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Bailey
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.