Emerson-Brantingham Implement Co. v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1946
16 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 Mullen v. Thaxton · McFadyen and Brown v. Masters · Continental Gin Co. v. Sullivan · Ricker Nat. Bank v. Stone · Stone v. American Nat. Bank
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We, the jury impaneled and sworn to try the issues in the above entitled cause, do# upon our oaths find for the plaintiff for the possession of the chattels, or, in lieu thereof, the sum of $1,016.32.””
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.