Collyer v. . Collyer’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 1965 · most notably Clark v. Cox (1947), Lamb v. . Lamb (1895)
44 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 Williams v. . Hutchinson · Benjamin v. . Benjamin · Chipman v. Martin
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff gave proof, showing, beyond all question, that she (defendant) did not suspect that she was there as his tenant, under obligation to pay rent, and the circumstances were such that he must have known how she understood it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Story v. McCormick
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.