Lloyd v. Richman’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1953
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are asked to reject the plain sense of these averments, upon the ground that they are, in form, conclusions of law. Such a course would, in my opinion, be to require of unskilled suitors in these inferior courts a finesse in the use of language as much at variance with the nature of the proceedings as it would be with the character and purposes of these tribunals. No rational cause can be assigned for the rejection of words and terms universally used and correctly understood in common speech, merely because they happen to be also correct in a technical sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.