Galloway v. Corbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1914
9 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 Blackley v. Sheldon · Erie Preserving Co. v. Witherspoon · Henlow v. Leonard · Thayer v. Van Vleet · Hart v. Lindley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have here, from the justice’s return, a statement of all that occurred, and in passing upon this question we must take his return as true. We cannot say that it was an error that prejudiced the rights of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Watson
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.