Askins v. Easterling’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably In Re the Marriage of Allen (1986), Creaghe v. Iowa Home Mutual Casualty Co. (1963)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Davis v. Bonebrake · Risbry v. Swan · Von Trotha v. Bamberger · Michael v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. · Jerome v. Bohm
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There shall be no evidence of the contents of a writing itself, except ... when the original is not within the State of Colorado and the party offering such evidence has been unable, after exercise of due diligence, to obtain such original.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[wjhere a person who holds title to property is subject to an equitable duty to convey it to another on the ground that he would be unjustly enriched if he were permitted to retain it.””
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.