Castleman v. Avignone’s Empirical Analysis
12 F.2d 326 · 1926
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1977 · most notably Fairchild v. Raines (1944), Ludgate v. Somerville (1927)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Trustees of Columbia College v. . Thacher · Trustees of Columbia College v. Lynch · Henshaw v. Bissell · Rowland v. . Miller · McClure v. . Leaycraft
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The change in the use of the buildings on the street since the execution of the indenture does not affect the plaintiffs right. The importance of the maintenance of a building line may be as great when buildings are used for purposes of business as when they are occupied only as dwellings. . . [Our italics.]”
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.