West v. Madansky’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1980
22 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 Joseph Parker Camp v. Kate Willard Boyd · Thomas v. Whitney · Stone v. Case · Choctaw, O. G. R. Co. v. Burgess · Thomas v. Thomas
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction between actions at law and suits in equity, and the forms of all such actions and suits, heretofore existing, are absolished; and in their place there shall be, hereafter, but one form of action, which shall be called a civil action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stuart v. Robertson
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.