Maass v. Solingsky’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1955 · most notably Chicago, R. I. & G. Ry. Co. v. Gladish (1915), Young Men's Christian Ass'n of Dallas v. Schow Bros. (1913)
27 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When an appeal is taken from any judgment of a district court to this court, it must be informed as to what the cause of action was, either through the pleadings made a part of the transcript, or by an agreed case made as the statute permits. “In a case originating in a justice’s court, this must be shown to this court by the entries made in the justice’s docket, by pleadings filed in the case, if any, or by an agreed case; and, if it does not appear what the cause of action was, through a transcript which shows it in some of these methods, this court cannot revise the action of the district court; for unless it knows what was tried, it cannot know whether there was error or not.””
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.