Allen v. Duffie’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1961
19 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 Pearce v. Atwood · Feital v. Middlesex Railroad · Johnston v. People · Trustees in Trust for First Society of Methodist Episcopal Church v. Clark · Commonwealth v. Sampson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Charity is active goodness. It is doing good to our fellow men. It is fostering’ those institutions that are established to relieve pain, to prevent suffering, and to do good to mankind in general or to any class or portion of mankind.””
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.