Droppers v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1946
4 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 Way v. Root · Phillips v. Stauch · Allen v. Atkinson · Brown v. Brown · Hall v. Loomis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I have been unable to find that the law as announced in Dikeman v. Arnold has ever been overruled, nor is there any reason in equity and good conscience why it should be overruled. So long as the wife is not disturbed in her homestead rights why should not the contracting husband be made to answer for his default in failing to perform his contract?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lamberts v. Lemley
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.