Perkins v. Baer’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1960
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.
Relationships
Relies on Verdin v. City of St. Louis · Clark v. Covenant Mutual Life Insurance · Merchants Bank v. Evans · Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad v. Nortoni · Donovan v. Dunning
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.
“when distinct and independent matters are improperly joined, whereby they are confounded, as the writing in one bill of several matters perfectly distinct and unconnected, against one defendant, or the demand of several matters, of a distinct and independent nature, against several defendants in the same bill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Essen v. Adams
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.