Allen v. Withrow’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 119 · 1884
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Peters v. Bain (1890), American Casualty Insurance Company's Case (1896)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Drury v. Foster · Morgan v. Hammett · Swartz v. Ballou
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Real property owned by a partnership and purchased with partnership funds is, for the purpose of settling the debts of the partnership and distributing its effects, treated in equity as personal property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schenk v. Lewis
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.