Downer v. Dana’s Empirical Analysis
1845
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1913
6 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 Simson v. Hart · Ferris v. Burton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although' a court of equity will not, any more than a court of law, allow a set-off of joint debts against separate debts, yet there are many exceptions. One important exception is where the debts are in reality mutual,'although not so in form, as where one of the joints debtors is a mere surety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Drexel v. Berney
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.