Clark v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1935
9 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 10 Cal. App. 746 - Standard Box Co. v. Mutual Biscuit Co. · Ehrsam v. Brown · Smith Sand & Gravel Co. v. Corbin · Cameron Coal & Mercantile Co. v. Universal Metal Co. · Doolittle v. Ferry
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Language has often been used indicating that this must be determined from a mere inspection of the document. For instance, the second paragraph of the syllabus in Ehrsam v. Brown, 64 Kan. 466 , 67 Pac. 867 , might be open to that interpretation. But a more accurate statement of the rule allows outside evidence for the purpose at least of showing the conditions surrounding the transaction and the relations of the parties.” (p. 652.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.