Doyle v. Cornett’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1970
10 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 Luen v. Wilson · Meade v. Ratliff · Fort Jefferson Improvement Co. v. Dupoyster
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That, where one who seeks to recover land upon the ground that he is the owner and entitled to possession of it has previously sold it to another, the fact that the sale was champertous will not enable him to maintain the action. He must abandon or rescind the champertous contract.” (Citing several cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poore v. Poore
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.