Edwards v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
20 F. 756 · 1883
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1953
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Dexter v. Hall · Jackson v. Chew · Neves v. Scott · Stewart's v. Lispenard · Dennett v. Dennett
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is only neecssary in the present esse to determine the validity of the bonds executed by George A. Davenport. If these are held invalid as to him, the mortgage, which is a. more incident, falls with them. Can it be said that a rule respecting the validity, force, and effect of a contract entered into by a person of unsound mind is a rule of property? It is a rule which may, indirectly, in a certain class of cases, affect the title to property, but the same may bo said of any ruling oí the state courts respecting contracts. If the sum claimed as due upon a contract is sought to be fastened as a lien upon rfial estate, either by mortgage or attachment, a decision of the question of its validity will undoubtedly affect the title to such property. But it liars never been claimed that for this reason the decisions of the state courts upon the validity of any class of contracts can be regarded ag a rule of property. If the complainant had sued at. law upon the bonds, it would not have been claimed that the state decisions in question were binding on this court. It is difficult to see upon what principle we can apply one rule to the bonds when suit is brought upon them at law, and another when suit is brought upon them in equity. The decisions of the highest court of a state may be said to constitute a rule of property when they relate to and settle some principle of local law directly applicable to titles. A. rule of property is one thing; a rale respecting the validity of a cl”
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.