Young v. Duvall’s Empirical Analysis
109 U.S. 573 · 1883
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Bedford v. United States (1904), 3 E.H. Smith 71 - Albany County Savings Bank v. McCarty (1896)
14 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol · Radich v. Hutchins · Insurance Company v. Nelson · Drury v. Foster
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mischiefs that would ensue from a different rule could not well be overstated. The eases of hardship upon married women that might occur under the operation of such a rule are of less consequence than the general insecurity' in the titles to real estate which would inevitably follow from one less rigorous. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when any married woman shall be a party executing a deed for the conveyance of real estate or interest therein, and shall only be relinquishing her right of dower, or when she shall be a party with her husband to any deed, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to take acknowledgments, before whom she may appear, to examine her privily and apart from her husband, and to explain to her the deed fully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hitz v. Jenks“the proof to that end must be of such a character as will clearly and fully show the certificate to be false or fraudulent.... The mischiefs that would result from a different rule could not well be overstated.”
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.