Searles v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1972
12 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 Whereatt v. Ellis · Sharp v. Mayor of New York · Baxter v. Chute · Wynne v. . Prairie · Bradford v. . Coit
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constant purpose of the courts must be to dispense justice between litigants, and to this end no one should be deprived, except by facts for which he ought to be held responsible, of an opportunity to present his grievance or defense for the examination and judgment of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conley v. Lunzman
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.