Biron v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1932
10 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 Winninghoff v. Wittig
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot doubt that the power inheres in a court of. equity, in its discretion, to consolidate causes pending therein, for the purpose of avoiding a multiplicity of suits and trials,when the consolidation can work no injury to any party. This power is essential to the proper administration of justice, and does not depend upon any statute for its existence.””
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.