Randall v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Pettis v. Johnston (1920), Swearingen v. Swearingen (1917)
28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not like an ordinary issue of fact, to be determined by a mere preponderance of testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Even prudent men and officers are liable to forgetfulness and negligence; and if the judgments of our courts may be set aside, after having stood for years, on such evidence, there will indeed be no end to litigation, no certainty arrived at by any adjudication. This is a case where the jury have erred in matter of law, and, notwithstanding this is the third verdict, we think that the judgment should be reversed and remanded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Joseph v. Kiber“* * * Upon general principles, it would seem essential to the peace and quiet of society that these solemn official acts should not be set aside with the same ease as an ordinary act in pais.”
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.