Underdown v. Underdown’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2013
13 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 Bradly v. Jennings · Murphy v. Murphy · Collyer v. Collyer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question as to whether a complainant in a bill in equity for an account is entitled to a decree for an accounting [ ... ] has nothing to do with what will ultimately be shown by the account. Once a plaintiff has made clear his right to an account, the decree for an accounting necessarily follows; the plaintiff in this threshold inquiry is not called upon to establish the amount due, only the right to have an investigation of what is due. [ ... ] Upon an application for an account, the only question to be considered is whether the account shall be taken— plaintiffs right to the accounting and defendant’s liability to render the account!;.]”
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.