Armstrong v. Poland’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1971
7 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 City of Oklahoma City v. Meyers · Kuhl v. Supreme Lodge Select Knights & Ladies · St. Louis, S. F. R. Co. v. Houston
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first assignment, that ‘the court erred in refusing to make additional parties defendant,’ cannot be sustained. The cases relied upon by counsel are not in point, for the reason that in those cases the parties sought to be brought into the case were interested in the subject-matter of the action. Not so in this case. It would have been entirely proper, and perhaps the better practice, to have brought the parties in, and certainly for the best interests of the defendant, but there is no statute requiring the court to'comply with the motion. The statute (section 4696, Rev. Raws 1910) is only mandatory where ‘a determination of the controversy cannot be had without the presence of the other parties.’ No such state of facts exist here. It was discretionary with the trial court, and we cannot say that there was an abuse of discretion.””
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.