Downs v. Kroeger’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Marra v. Aetna Construction Co. (1940), Fairchild v. Raines (1944)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 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 Trustees of Columbia College v. . Thacher · McClure v. . Leaycraft · Jackson v. Stevenson · Margraf v. . Muir · Los Angeles Terminal Land Co. v. Muir
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It certainly is not the doctrine of courts of equity, to enforce ... every contract, in all cases, even where specific execution is found to be its legal intention and effect. It gives or withholds such decree according to its discretion, in view of the circumstances of the case ....”
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.