Field v. Gantier’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1936
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is insisted that the cause of action was barred before the institution of this suit, and that the case was therefore rightly dismissed. It does not so appear from the petition. Of the right of the plaintiff to intervene, claim the benefit of the original suit, and prosecute it to judgment, if, as he alleges, he is the owner of the notes, and has never assigned or transferred them to another, there can be no question. And it is very clear that the nominal plaintiffs in that suit could not defeat his right, after the filing of the petition and notice to them, by dismissing the suit.”
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.