Downen v. Rayburn’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably McKenrick v. Savings Bank (1938), Himmel v. Hendler (1931)
6 federal appellate · 35 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 Olcott v. Gabert · Hutchinson v. Ulrich · Star Brewery Co. v. Primas · Kew v. Trainor · Board of Education v. Trustees of First Baptist Church of Normal
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There is nothing in the words in question to indicate that the premises conveyed were to be used as a church location for any particular length of time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stansbery v. Church
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.