Jennisons v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
88 U.S. 302 · 1874
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008 · most notably Martinton v. Fairbanks (1885), Grayson v. Lynch (1896)
5 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In ordering judgment for the plaintiff, certain propositions of law are announced by the judge as having been held by him. These are important only as they necessarily and of themselves affect the question whether the facts found are sufficient to support the judgment, and they are no more important than if they had not been thus announced. No specific exception * * ⅜. can be taken to them.” Jennison v. Leonard, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.