Evans v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1979 · most notably Lehman v. Meyer (1880), Long v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad (1910)
37 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 Dargan v. Waring · Fash v. Ravesies · Harris v. Carter's Administrators · State ex rel. Nabor's Heirs · Brown v. Tutwiler
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In whatever right, and by the introduction of whatever parties, it is proposed to cure the abatement, the revivor, or the making a motion to revive, must be made within 18 months after the occurrence of the disability. The statute is mandatory, and the right is barred, if it is not • asserted within that period. Pope v. Irby, 57 Ala. 105 ; Brown v. Tutwiler, 61 Ala. 372 .””
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.