Emory v. Keighan’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Ashley v. Cook (1900), Richey v. Sinclair (1897)
1 district · 30 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 Pollock v. Maison · Kilgour v. Gockley · Hall v. Lance · Cutter v. Jones
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ But it is insisted that the statute of limitations can not avail unless it bé pleaded. The general rule is, that the statute must be pleaded, and the reason of the rule is that al defenses of confession and avoidance must be affirmatively pleaded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Morgan
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.