Allman v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1924
7 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 Dodge v. Cole · Whitman v. Fisher · Mulford v. Beveridge
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.
““The jurisdiction of the court of chancery to order the sale of the whole or portion of the estate of an infant, or to order it to be incumbered by mortgage whenever the interest of the infant demands it, will not be denied, whether that interest be of a legal or an equitable nature. ””
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.