Pfister v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1999
1 district · 14 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 Barry v. . Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y. · School District No. 1 v. Weston · 3 Barb. Ch. 391 - Bell v. Hunt · Cady v. Potter · Lincoln v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to the remedy by interpleader is founded, however, not on the consideration that a man may be subjected to double liability, but on the fact that he is threatened with double vexation in respect to one liability."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where the claims made by the defendants are of different amounts, they never can be identical.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.