Lippitt v. Ashley’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Connell v. Colwell (1990), Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc. (1982)
3 federal appellate · 14 district · 67 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.
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. Webb · Wallace v. Lincoln Savings Bank · Greenfield Savings Bank v. Abercrombie · Lowndes v. City National Bank · Bank of Hartford County v. Waterman
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directed to the very point of obtaining the delay, of which he afterwards seeks to take advantage by pleading the statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he courts cannot nullify the statute in every case in which they think it is inequitable to apply it . . . .”
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.