Napier v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1946
1 federal appellate · 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 Foster v. Napier · Hill's Adm'r v. Huckabee's Adm'r · Givens v. Robbins, Painter & Co.
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.
““It is oniy in cases where some error, mistake, or oversight is fatal to the right to maintain the action in the form in which it is first brought that it can ever become necessary to invoke the provisions of the statute; that the statute was intended to relieve parties of the consequences of some error, mistake, or oversight in bringing or prosecuting the first 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.