Fulton v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Creteau v. Phoenix Assurance Co. of New York (1961), 142 W. Va. 716 - Lieberman v. Lieberman (1957)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Merchants Heat & Light Co. v. J. B. Clow & Sons · Pendleton v. Russell · Citizens' Savings Trust Company v. Illinois Central Railroad Company · Columbus Construction Co. v. Crane Co. · Burdette v. Corgan
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this state, litigants have put themselves within this rule, for the most part, by asking or accepting some sort of relief in the cause, consistent with the hypothesis of a submission and inconsistent with any other view, such as a continuance.””
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.