Silvey v. Summer’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1948
22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Great strictness and accuracy in these complaints has not been deemed essential heretofore. In Tipton v. Swayne, 4 Mo. 98 , the premises were described as ‘one house and one garden,’ and held sufficient. So, also, in Walker v. Harper, 33 Mo. 592 , it was not alleged that the property which was in the city of St. Louis, was in the ward where suit was brought, and beyond whose limits the justice had no jurisdiction; and yet the description was held well enough.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barry v. Bannerman
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.