Skoin v. Limerick’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1949
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before we can reverse the decision of the court below, it will be necessary for us • to know that we have jurisdiction of the case, and this although in fact no question of jurisdiction has been raised by either party. Indeed, the defendant in error, John F. Limerick, who was plaintiff below, and who would naturally be the person to raise such a question, has not made any appearance in this court, nor has any appearance in this court been made for him. We think, however, it is the duty of this court, on its own motion, where the question is not otherwise raised, to raise the question itself, and to consider the same.””
2 later decisions 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.