Acock v. Halsey’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1968 · most notably Barnes v. Barnes (1892), Truett v. Onderdonk (1898)
1 district · 23 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 Reynolds v. Harris · Page v. Superior Court · Bowers v. Dickerson · McLeran v. Shartzer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the answer was not filed until after the expiration of the time within which the Code provides that an answer may be filed. But it could not be disregarded, or treated as a nullity, so long as it remained on file. The plaintiff’s remedy was a motion to strike it from the files. ‘It was, perhaps, not strictly regular to file the answer after the time for answering had expired, without leave of the court; but, as the default of the defendant had not been entered, we think the filing was not a nullity.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ortega v. Vigil
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.