Boardman v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 1964 · most notably Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Co. v. Wynant (1885), Borders v. Williams (1900)
1 federal appellate · 49 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The pa.rties must recover upon the allegations of the pleadings. They must recover secundum allegata et probata or not at all. It must be so from the nature of things, so long as our mode of administering justice prevails. It would be folly to require the plaintiff to state his cause of action and the. defendant to disclose his grounds of defense, if, on the trial, either or both might abandon such grounds and recover upon others which are substantially different from those alleged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamer v. Howell
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.