Small v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1970
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Williams v. Uncompahgre Canal Co. · St. Louis National Stock Yards v. O'Reilly · Batchelder v. Rand · Wall v. Robinson · Doolittle v. Plenz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature may shorten the time by which actions on existing contracts will be barred, provided it does not fix the limitation so as to cut off the right of action on demands against which the former statute had not run, or does not unreasonably shorten the time within which suit may be brought on such demands. With these limitations such legislation, although retroactive, will be sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.