White v. Flannigain’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Moore v. McAllister (1958), Callahan v. Clemens (1945)
47 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold, that where a party sells property lying within the limits of a city, and in the conveyance, bounds such property by streets designated as such, in the conveyance, or on a map made by the city, or by the owner of the property, such sale implies, necessarily, a covenant that the purchaser shall have the use of such streets.” (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere allegation of a complainant that irremediable damage or irreparable mischief will ensue is not sufficient. To satisfy the conscience of the Court, the facts must be stated to show that the apprehension of injury is well founded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the trespass goes to the destruction of the property as it had been held and enjoyed”
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.