Foster v. Milliner’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1903
2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the record in the former suit shows that neither a counterclaim nor matter set up by way of recoupment in that suit were litigated therein, as the defendant did not appear at the trial, but suffered a judgment to betaken against him by default on the plaintiff’s evidence, this will not prevent a plea of res adjudicata. The matter being directly in issue by the pleadings, the neglect .of the defendant to appear does not change the rule.””
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.