Fletcher v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2009
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.
“We cannot see how this provision in any way affects the case at bar. The effect of it is, simply to allow a citizen of Minnesota to plead the statute of limitations of a foreign state or country when it is more favorable than our own; . . . or, in other words, it confers a privilege on a defendant when sued by a foreigner which it denies to him when sued upon the same demand by a domestic plaintiff. Our own Statute of Limitations is always open to such of our citizens as can bring themselves within it, and foreign statutes may also be taken advantage of against foreign plaintiffs when more favorable than our own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farthing v. Sams
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.