Joyce v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Lillie v. Trentman (1891), Childress v. Lake Erie & Western Railroad (1914)
39 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 Fletcher v. Holmes · Pattison v. Vaughan · Fentriss v. State ex rel. Watkins
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Judges are by no means free from the infirmities of human nature, and, therefore, it seems to us, that a proper respect for the high positions they are called upon to fill should induce them to avoid even' a cause for suspicion of bias or prejudice, in the discharge of their judicial duties.””
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.