Holsman v. . St. John’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1953 · most notably 11 E.H. Smith 100 - Pringle v. . Long Island R.R. Co. (1898), Cavanaugh v. Scott (1893)
27 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 Zabriskie v. . Smith · Evans v. . Cleveland · Greene v. . Martine · Livermore v. . Bainbridge · Benjamin's Executors v. Smith
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In case of the death of a sole plaintiff or a sole defendant, if the cause of action survives or continues, the court must, upon a motion, allow or comjiel the action to be continued by or against his representative or successor in interest.””
2 later decisions 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.