Donaldson v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1978
16 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 Williams v. Sapieha · Bullock v. Sprowls · Pearson v. Cox · Jones v. Meyer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We recommend that the judgment of the district court and that of the Court of Civil Appeals be reversed, and that judgment be here rendered as given by said courts, save that if plaintiffs below, that is, Meyer and wife, fail within six months to deposit with the clerk of the district court, for benefit, of defendant Donaldson, the sum of $3,600, with interest from November 4, 1918, at 6 per ceht., then order of sale shall issue for the sale of the land in controversy in this suit to satisfy said judgment in favor of defendant Donaldson, and costs of sale.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donaldson v. Meyer
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.