Patterson v. Rousney’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1947
21 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 Campbell v. Holt · Sohn v. Waterson · Koshkonong v. Burton · Anderson v. Ritterbusch · Wolf v. Stix
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears that the purpose of adopting the provisions of the Schedule is, as expressed therein, to declare that existing rights, contracts, and claims shall continue as if no change in the form of government had taken place; that is, they shall continue' to exist and be capable of enforcement without being liable to be defeated by the plea of limitation for the same period of time they would have thus continued under the laws in force at the time the cause of action accrued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maine v. Edmonds““No existing fights, actions, suits, proceedings, contracts, or claims shall be affected by the change in the forms' of government, but all shall continue as if no change in the forms of government had taken place. Hs H* H» ? ?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maine v. Edmonds
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.