Spotts v. Hanley’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Estate of Clark (1923), Swift v. Occidental Mining & Petroleum Co. (1903)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Brumagim v. Bradshaw · Brenham v. Story · McLeran v. Benton · Cunningham v. Ashley · Knight v. Roche
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We pass then to the proposition advanced by the appellant in his reply brief, viz., that there is no finding upon a material issue raised by the pleading, in this; that the answer pleads the Plate judgment is an estoppel against the plaintiff, and that there is no finding whether it is or is not a bar to the plaintiff’s recovery. As one of the grounds given in the notice of motion for a new trial is that ‘the decision is against law,’ the point can be considered on this appeal.””
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.