Crowther v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1933
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Does the petition state a cause of action? We think it does, very awkwardly and inartistically, certainly, but we cannot be mistaken in the fact that the defendant was- made aware of just what the plaintiff complained of, and the relief he sought. ‘The court must tolerate modes of statement unsuited to orderly arrangement; the use of words unaptly applied; involved sentences, lacking simplicity and logical accuracy,’ if, from the whole petition, the nature of the charge can be ascertained. We find no difficulty in doing so in this case. The contract is made a part of the petition, and is not difficult of construction. The plaintiff says he has duly performed all the conditions imposed upon him by the contract, and specifies wherein the defendant has broken his. ‘In the construction of any pleading, for the purpose of determining its effect, its allegations shall be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between the parties.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.