Cross v. Ritch’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1972
12 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 Miller v. Smith · Sands v. Sands · Gore v. Cone · Rhodes v. First Nat. Bank · Brown v. Gurley
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.
““ * * * The argument under point one refers to each of the assignments of error. In an attempt to support the assignments and the point, plaintiffs have written eleven pages of argument which deals al most entirely with facts alleged to be in the record, but not once in those pages is there a reference to the record. From plaintiffs’ brief we have no way of finding out what the testimony was as to this point. “This court has stated more than once that it is a court of review and will not search the record in an effort to find facts with which to overturn the findings made by the lower court. * * * >»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Potter v. Wilson
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.