Ferguson v. Standley’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Scott v. Weinheimer (1962), Trueblood v. Pierce (1947)
4 federal appellate · 62 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 Glantz v. Gabel · Bullerdick v. Hermsmeyer · McDonnell v. Huffine · Smith v. Duff · Chessman v. Hale
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the easement for the road, defendant first attacks the findings as not supported by the evidence. "2. Counsel for plaintiff contend that this attack must be disregarded, as defendant did not request findings nor file exceptions to the findings as made, citing sections 9369 and 9370, Revised Codes 1921 [now R.C.M. 1947, secs. 93-5305 and 93-5306], and numerous opinions of this court discussing their effect and announcing the doctrine of implied findings. "The sections cited deal with absence of findings and defective findings omissions while defendant attacks the findings for what they declare. In such case the rules announced in the cited provisions and cases have no application (Cobban v. Hecklen, 27 Mont. 245 , 70 Pac. 805 ), and, on matters on which the court has made direct findings, there is no room for the application of the doctrine of implied findings (Crosby v. Robbins, 56 Mont. 179 , 182 Pac. 122 ). The specifications of error properly raise the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“2. Counsel for plaintiff contend that this attack must be disregarded, as defendant did not request findings nor file exceptions to the findings as made, citing sections 9369 and 9370, Revised Codes 1921 [now R.C.M. 1947, secs. 93-5305 and 93-5306], and numerous opinions of this court discussing their effect and announcing the doctrine of implied findings.”
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.