Downing v. Birney’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1902
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Defreese v. Lake · Willis v. Jenkins · Tucker v. Tucker · Blair v. . Osborne · Mullreed v. Clark
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the habendum is not silent, and was undoubtedly designed to qualify or supplement the premises in some way, which it may legally do, even to the enlargement of the estate granted, or the creation of new estates in new parties, who may be introduced by the habendum for that purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.