Foster v. Napier’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Kaplan v. Coleman (1912), Sessions v. Jack Cole Company (1963)
47 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 Crimm's Adm'rs v. Crawford · Commonwealth v. Churchill · Savage v. Benham · Gamsby v. Ray · Burkham v. Mastin
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant is twice impleaded by the same plaintiff, for the same thing, the oppression and vexation is not matter of fact; it is a conclusion of law, and is not dependent upon an inquiry into the actual circumstances of the two cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There can be no necessity for the institution or the pendency of two suits for the same matter at the same time. The security of the plaintiff can not require it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defective, it is the fault of the plaintiff, not of the defendant.”
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.