Speer v. Burlingame’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1944
11 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 Clark's v. Hannibal · Mooney v. Kennett · Sugg v. Thornton · Alcorn v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Sweet v. Maupin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the defendants themselves resorted to this method of proof of the contents of the original records of the Dank, in their depositions, it is not perceived upon what ground they could be heard to complain of the action of the court. They took the deposition and filed it in the court. The plaintiff was present at the taking of it, and cross-examined the witness; and had the defendants not proved the existence of these by-laws, as was done without objection, it may be presumed the plaintiff would have taken steps to have done so himself; in that or some other way. To permit the defendants to object to the manner of proving the by-laws which they had adopted themselves, and to exclude the same on that ground, would visit upon plaintiff a hardship to which we cannot give our sanction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. Garth
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.