1 E.H. Smith 560 - Losey v. . Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1974 · most notably Anderson v. Wilson (1933), Simpson v. . Foundation Co. (1911)
2 district · 56 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 Moore v. Littel · Woodward v. . James · Risley v. . Phenix Bank of City of New York · Stevenson v. . Lesley · Rogers v. . Rogers
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question of the inherent power of a court of equity to order a sale of an infant's real property, upon the theory of a supposed benefit to him, is quite distinct from its acknowledged power in the enforcement and protection of trusts and from the power of courts in the exercise of their ordinary jurisdiction to establish or enforce rights of property between parties to a litigation, whether infants or adults.”
1 later decision 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.