Sumner v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1922
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Each case must depend, to a great extent, upon its own facts and circumstances, and upon the discretion of the court; the rule being that the best evidence of which the case, in its nature, is susceptible, must be produced.” (p. 529.)”
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.