Alexander v. . Wriston’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 1912
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except as otherwise provided,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. . Mask.
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.