Malone v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Wolf v. Brungardt (1974), Axe v. Wilson (1939)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 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 Starkweather v. Jenner · Herthel v. Barth · New v. Smith · Smith v. Rector · Foy v. Greenwade
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine that a person claiming an interest or a right may be required to assert it promptly is' especially applicable to oil and gas properties which are subject to rapid fluctuation in value. That he will not be permitted to engage in speculative delay until the value of such property has greatly appreciated, is definitely established.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the statute of limitations does not begin to run until the discovery of the fraud, plaintiff, under the general rule heretofore stated and under the repeated decisions of this court, is not relieved from such discovery by simply alleging ignorance of the fraud, but is required to plead facts which disclose inability to discover the fraud by the exercise of ordinary diligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.