Despard v. . Walbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably United Merchants' Realty & Improvement Co. v. Roth (1908), Pardee v. . Treat (1880)
63 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Á tenant cannot dispute the title ot his landlord, so long as it remains as it was at the time the tenancy commenced, but he may show that the title under which he entered had expired or been extinguished. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. Young
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.