Anthony v. Smithson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1956
1 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Finch v. . Baskerville
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the amended bill of particulars it appeared that the suit was prematurely brought, at least as to a portion of the claim, and the defendant argues that such fact deprived the court of power to proceed. Such, however, is not the law. Prematurity in bringing suit is not a jurisdictional matter. As stated at page 746 of volume 1 of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure: ‘It has been held that where defendant is sued on a demand before it is due, and pleads in chief, it is too late afterward to make objection that the action is premature.’” (p. 134.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Graham
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.