Latham v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2010
17 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 Tarver v. Tarver · McKinley v. McKinley · Hardee, Sheriff v. Vincent · Carter v. Walton · West v. Austin National Bank
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.
“a claim, which, if established will defeat or qualify a judgment to which the plaintiff is otherwise entitled.... The fundamental philosophy of all setoffs is that they are offered by a defendant in opposition to some money demand asserted by a plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may state as a cross-claim any claim by one party against a co-party arising out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter either of the original action or of a counterclaim therein. Such cross-claim may include a claim that the party against whom it is asserted is or may be liable to the cross-claimant for all or part of a claim asserted in the action against the cross-claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBryde v. Curry“a claim, which, if established will defeat or in some way qualify a judgment to which the plaintiff is otherwise entitled. It embraces both setoff and recoupment, and also comprehends reconvention as well as all adversary actions by the defendant in a case”
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.