Allen v. Shires’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1957
1 federal appellate · 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 Smith v. Smith · Jerome v. Bohm · Phillips v. Phillips · Smith v. Smith · Cowan v. Cowan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true test of the interest, however, as said by Mr. Greenleaf, 1 Green. Ev. (15 ed.), secs. 389, 390, is whether he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action; and it must be a present, certain, and vested interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Popejoy v. Bahr
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.