Aiken v. Protis’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1970
14 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 Ren v. Jones · Gordon v. Brewer · Sharples v. Duvall
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is urged that it has always been the rule in Arizona that amendments should be allowed liberally in the interest of- justice, so that cases should ultimately tried on their merits and not on technical questions of procedure. be “The general rule of law is unquestionably as stated by plaintiff. * * * It is evident from this testimony that to permit the amendment would necessarily have completely altered the entire theory of the case, would have required a reformation of a written contract, and have destroyed a perfect defense going to the validity of the contract itself, regardless of whether it was assigned or not. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Apperson
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.