Lorillard v. . Clyde’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1935
4 district · 8 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 Lorillard v. . Clyde
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the judgment of the court, and not the findings of the jury, which binds the parties. The adjudication is not in the verdict, but in the judgment adopted by the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buttling v. Hatton
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.