Matter of Tienken’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
6 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 1960 · most notably Fulton Trust Co. v. . Phillips (1916), Cammann v. . Bailey (1913)
6 district · 60 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 Goebel v. . Wolf · Vanderzee v. Slingerland · Crooke v. . County of Kings · In Re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wells · Cooke v. . Platt
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have heretofore said that the rule of construction founded upon a gift flowing only from a direction to divide has many exceptions, and is to be used as an aid to ascertain the intention, and not as a force to pervert it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Crane
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.