Turner v. Markham’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably Whitten v. Dabney (1915), Stock v. Meek (1950)
5 federal appellate · 24 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 Davenport v. Dows · Pinney v. Nelson · Scadden Flat Gold Mining Co. v. Scadden · Garretson v. Pacific Crude Oil Co. · Kellerman v. Maier
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Abandonment is government by intent, and the intention to abandon must be established by declaration or by conduct. . . . Here, clearly, there was no abandonment, but rather positive evidence of a prosecution to completion of the oral agreement.””
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.