Friar v. McGilbray’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1959
10 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 Boggs v. Merced Mining Co. · Trenton Banking Company v. . Duncan · Martin v. Zellerbach · Freeman v. Eldridge · Cravens v. Kitts
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.
““A judge of the district court, in settling a case-made for the Supreme Court, has the power, on his own motion, or at the suggestion of either party, and before signing such case-made to make such alterations in the case-made, and such erasures and additions, as may be necessary to make the case-made speak the truth.””
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.