Forrest v. O'Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2015
6 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is a general rule of the common law that the action must be brought in the name of the party in whom the legal interest is vested, and that the courts will not, in general, take notice of mere equitable titles and rights of action, as contradistinguished from the strict legal title and interest, so as to invest the equitable or merely beneficial claimant with the ability to adopt legal proceedings in his own name.” Forrest v. O’Donnell, 42 Mich. 558 ( 4 N. W. 259 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fair v. Martin
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.