Scott v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2015
20 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 Palmer v. Oakley · Bank of Monroe v. Brockway · Northrop's executors v. Graves · Mowatt v. Wright · Culbreath v. Culbreath
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat' (Ignorance of fact excuses, ignorance of the law does not excuse); and 'Volenti non fit injuria' (that to which a person assents is not esteemed in law an injury).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Reedus
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.