Duvall v. Birden’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably United States v. Kahaner (1963), Freda v. Smith (1955)
13 federal appellate · 13 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 Grant v. Grant · Roth v. Ravich · Woodbridge Ice Co. v. Semon Ice Cream Corporation · Taylor v. Lounsbury-Soule Co. · Knox v. Binkoski
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either for services rendered at the [defendant's] request or under circumstances revealing the plaintiff's expectations to be paid therefor, with knowledge of which the [defendant] availed himself of the services”
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.