Eager v. Derowitsch’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Vaughn v. State (1998), Martinez v. State (1980)
34 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 Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. · Brothers v. Brothers · Lake v. Lake · Barney v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District · 152 Mo. App. 1 - Hall v. McConey
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are sure that in many instances, in the years gone by, the rulings of presiding judges, in matters wherein they are given the right to exercise their discretion, were not interfered with because of the old unfortunate statement to the effect that it must be shown that there was an ‘abuse of discretion.’ Recently it has been shown time after time that the term ‘abuse of discretion’ does not mean any reflection upon the presiding judge, and it is a strict legal term, to indicate that the appellate court is simply of the opinion that there was commission of an error of law in the circumstances.””
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.