Drew v. Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1940
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An assault may be entirely lawful, as either excusable or justifiable, and it involves every ‘ attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another/ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillespie v. Beecher““If defendant used his stick to defend himself from what seemed to him to be an assault, there was no wrong in doing so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillespie v. Beecher
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.