Beardslee v. Morgner’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1940
19 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.
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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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This language (language of the statute) is altogether too plain for construction. It leaves no discretion to the court, and requires no motion to bring the power of the court into active exercise'. Upon the occurrence of a third defective petition, the jurisdiction of the court to receive a further petition is cut off, and its only remaining power in the premises is to obey the behest of the statute, and render judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If a third petition * * * be filed and adjudged insufficient as above, or the whole or some part thereof be stricken out, the party filing such pleading shall pay treble costs; and no further petition * * * shall be filed, but judgment shall be rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon v. Burris
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.