Forry v. Ridge’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1956
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 Bloomfield v. Charter Oak Bank · Johnson v. Joliet & Chicago Railroad · People Ex Rel. Loew v. Batchelor · State ex rel. Parker v. Smith · Allen v. City of Burlington
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The common council shall hold a meeting on the third Monday in April in each year and thereafter on the first Monday of every month, but not oftener, unless especially convened by the mayor in pursuance of law.’ ” (p. 619.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘The mayor shall call special sessions of the common council by proclamation, which shall be published as may be provided by ordinance.’ ” (p. 619.)”
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.