Desroches v. McCrary’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1982
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schadt v. Brill · Davis v. Coblens · 52 Tex. Civ. App. 575 - Heilbron v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Campbell · May v. Slade
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff, as one of two tenants in common, is a person entitled to possession as against everyone but his co-tenant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. Laugutu
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.