Dearmond v. Dearmond’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably 37 Wash. 2d 561 - In Re the Estate of Bordeaux (1950), Somers v. Pumphrey (1865)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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 Connelly v. Doe ex dem. Skelly
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute a delivery, it would seem that the deed must pass under the power of the grantee, or some person for his use, with the consent of the grantor. Petersdorff supra; Wilson v. Cassidy, 2. Ind. 562.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Somers v. Pumphrey
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.