Perrill & Fox v. Runge’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1960
9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not permitted to resort to presumptions as to what the affiant intended to swear, but must be governed by what he has sworn, as shown by the language employed. Applying this rule, the affidavit under consideration is insufficient. There were two defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griggs v. Curry
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.