Montgomery v. Gorrell’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1933
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for appellants should have compelled, by proper proceedings in the court below, the production of such receipts, or, if they were shown to be lost or destroyed, should have proved their contents, and thus made them a part of the record.” Montgomery et al. v. Gorrell et al. (1874), 49 Ind. 230, 233 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre v. State
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.