Decker v. . Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1981 · most notably Shapiro v. Wilgus (1932), Phelps v. Smith (1888)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 Carpenter v. . Osborn · Niver v. . Crane
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judgment entered did not, in terms, conform to such direction, but the remedy was by motion to correct and settle it, and make it conform to the decision. No such motion was made, probably for the reason that the error was immaterial, since the amount fraudulently received by Hattie Decker, with the accrued interest, was greater than the deficiency to be recovered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hewitt v. Ballard
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.