Gallaher v. Herbert’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1973 · most notably Maguire v. City of Macomb (1920), Koch v. Streuter (1908)
30 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 Frazier v. Miller · Kershaw v. Kershaw · Board of Education v. Trustees of First Baptist Church of Normal
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The consideration could not be measured by dollars and cents. The personal kindness and numerous delicate attentions demanded by the age and condition of the grantors in those cases and that they might expect from the affections of the grantees are not marketable commodities, and it was therefore impossible by mere money compensations to make the grantors whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haslinger v. Gabel
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.