Donovan v. Boeck’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Diener v. Star-Chronicle Publishing Co. (1910), Grover Irrigation & Land Co. v. Lovella Ditch, Reservoir & Irrigation Co. (1913)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Conway's Executors and Devisees v. Alexander · Lanitz v. King · Green v. Covillaud · Bobb v. Wolff · Slowey v. McMurray
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.
“The language may be inaccurate, but if the court can determine the meaning of this inaccurate language, without any other guide than a knowledge of the simple facts upon which, from the nature of language in general, its meaning depends, the language, though inaccurate, could not be ambiguous.”
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.