Beebe v. Morrell’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1947
12 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 Harris v. Lester · King v. Harrington · Aldrich v. Chubb
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“# “The general rule is that the affidavit must be entitled in the suit in which it is to be used. If there be no suit pending at the time, of course the affidavit must not be entitled. If a suit be pending, and the affidavit is entitled in a suit not pending, the affidavit is a nullity. It is stated that the reason why the affidavit must be properly entitled is that otherwise perjury cannot be assigned upon it. And it is said that this rule had its origin in England. But an examination of the English cases will show that the rule there laid down was that affidavits for attachments for contempt, and to hold to bail, and others of that class, made when no suit was pending, if entitled, would be nullities, because no suit was pending in which they were entitled, and hence perjury could not be assigned upon them.””
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.