Epperson v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2001
1 federal appellate · 3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The next defense to be considered is that arising upon the plea of the statute of limitations of ten years barring actions upon judgments and decrees. Manifestly this statute applies only to final judgments and decrees. It cannot operate upon interlocutory decrees, or we should have the extraordinary spectacle of the earlier decrees in a prolonged litigation becoming barred before the rendition of a final decree at the termination of the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. Haggard“at his own request, and for his own benefit”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepard v. Lanier
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.