Donehue v. Nilges’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1998
12 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 St. Louis Union Trust Co. v. Kelley · Chouteau v. City of St. Louis · Yarbrough v. Yarbrough · Board v. Nevada School District · Hamilton v. City of Jackson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[tjo have and to hold unto the parties of the second part and their successors in trust for the use and benefit of the aforesaid’ school district 'so long as the aforesaid premises shall be used for a school house site and no longer, and if the aforesaid premises be no longer used for a school house site, then the aforesaid premises shall revert to and become the property of the grantors herein or those claiming title to the aforesaid’ ... 'by, through or under said grantors.’ ” Id. (emphasis added). Our high court determined that the conveyance constituted a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willhite v. Masters
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.