Etheridge v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably Lewis v. State (1943), Wallace v. Mize (1922)
27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have frequently held that a request must be perfect in itself; and if not, the court should refuse the same.”
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.