Skinner v. Dameron’s Empirical Analysis
1843
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1954
11 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 Parsons v. Suares
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not aware that under our laws any particular form is required in confessing judgment. Any admission of the debt sued for, which is such that it leaves no issue to be tried, is, in fact, a confession of judgment.””
2 later decisions 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.