Fallon v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1986
8 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 Dilworth v. McKelvy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the defendant has only a special interest, and the plaintiff is a stranger, then the entire value, according to the ancient doctrine of the common law, ' may he recovered by the special owner, who is answerable over to the general owner for whatever interest remains after the special' claim is satisfied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Enfield v. Stewart““If a plaintiff, having got possession of property by means of bis suit, should, before answer filed, voluntarily dismiss bis suit, can there be any doubt that tbe defendant would in such case be entitled, to have an assessment and judgment for tbe property taken or its value?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Enfield v. Stewart
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.