Boody v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2007
15 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 Robertson v. Stark · Canning v. Pinkham · New-Hampshire Bank v. Willard · Buffum v. Green · Bassett v. Bassett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whereas the statute provides, not that the deed should be void, but that it should be absolute, in the supposed case of an insufficient condition. The statute provides that the condition should be void, and the conveyance absolute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benton v. Sumner
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.