Leonard v. Beaudry’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1946
21 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 The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. Sebre Howard · Atkinson v. Morse · Holden v. Lake Co. · Goodrich v. Hubbard · Petrie v. Lane
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not good practice to decide a case upon the opening of counsel, and the cases are exceptional where it can be safely done.””
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.