Grigg v. Landis’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1966 · most notably Boone v. Templeman (1910), Gazlay v. Williams (1908)
37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 James Taylor v. Nicholas Longworth · Benedict v. Lynch · Livingston v. Tompkins · Henry v. Tupper · Aikin v. Albany, Vermont & Canada Railroad
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“penalties, forfeitures, and re-entries for conditions broken, are not favored in equity, and constitute a large branch of equitable relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.