Patrick v. Petty’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1993
17 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 Washington v. Timberlake · Bell's Adm'r v. Andrews · Board for the Assessment of the Property of Railroad Companies v. Alabama Central Railroad · Givhan v. Dailey's Admr'x · McNair v. Cooper
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . This statute, however, is confined to the statute of limitation[s] in its express terms, and can not be extended further. Non-claim does not fall within its healing provisions. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Motley v. Battle
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.