Craft v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 1985 · most notably Reeder v. Cox (1928), Lightsey v. Stone (1951)
1 federal appellate · 47 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 Thames & Co. v. Rembert's Adm'r · Wells v. Morrow · Foster v. Trustees of the Athenæum · Johnson v. Toulmin · Chapman v. Hamilton
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant further assigns as error, the overruling of his demurrer, which was based upon the suggestion that Tousmiere should have been made a party to complainant’s bill. The rule of practice established in this court is, that where such a demurrer is interposed for want of proper parties defendant, and the answer shows that all interested parties are really, and in fact before the court, there is no good reason why complainant should be compelled to amend his bill, or that it should be dismissed; the objection may be properly disregarded, and there is no error in proceeding to a final decree. Chapman v. Hamilton, 19 Ala. 121, 125 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tidmore v. Handy
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.