Harris v. Lester’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Cloud v. Inhabitants of the Town of Pierce City (1885), Chicago & Great Western Railroad Land Co. v. Peck (1885)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Haywood v. Collins · Botsford v. O'Conner · Goudy v. Hall · Miller v. Handy · Reddick v. President of State Bank
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A declaration on oatb, in writing, sworn to by tbe party before some person wbo bas authority under tbe law to administer oaths.””
2 later decisions 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.