Leigh v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
3 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Spitcaufsky v. Hatten (1944), The Title & Document Restoration Co. v. Kerrigan (1906)
3 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a showing by affidavit is required as to tacts which are necessarily matters of information and belief, an affidavit on information and belief ought to suffice. The statute should receive a construction in accordance with common sense. 'It was not intended to require perjury, and, as it requires affidavits as to matters involving legal opinions and conclusions of law and fact, it must contemplate that such affidavit will, be made upon the only basis on which such opinions and conclusions can be reached.””
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.