Sanford v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1963
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It appeared from the allegations of the petition that the questions attempted to be raised had been fully considered and determined in the judgment of May 28, 1890. The petition itself was insufficient, in failing to set forth the pleadings in the original case and the defense upon which Sanford relied. The facts constituting the defense must not only be fully stated,! but must show a legal and meritorious defense.” (See, also, Mulvaney v. Lovejoy, 37 Kan. 305 , 15 Pac. 181 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.