Spriggs v. Goodrich’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1982
6 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 J. H. Mulrein Plumbing Supply Co. v. Walsh · Lake v. Lake · Eager v. Derowitsch · Mitter v. Black Diamond Coal Co. · Platte County State Bank v. Frantz
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.
““ * * * [Ejven though the lower court had not exercised its discretion intemperately, arbitrarily, or in a manner palpably erroneous, the reviewing court should extend its inquiry to determine from the facts shown, whether in the interest of justice and right it should disturb an order which has the effect of preventing a determination upon the merits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bosler v. Morad
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.