De Sollar v. Hanscome’s Empirical Analysis
158 U.S. 216 · 1895
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 13 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Sealfon v. United States (1948), City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1913)
87 federal appellate · 13 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Russell v. Place · Teall v. Schroder
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is undoubtedly settled law that a judgment of a court of competent jrtrisdiction, upon a question directly involved in one suit, is conclusive as to that question in another suit between the same parties. But to this operation of the judgment it must appear, either upon the face of the record, or be shown by extrinsic evidence, that the precise question was raised and determined in the former suit. * * * ’ ””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the existence of a contract is a matter of doubt, equity will not, ■as a rule, decree specific performance; especially in a case like this, where, -as appears, the property was rapidly rising in value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Wansey
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.