Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1930
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 Campau v. Van Dyke · Russell v. Miller · McVickar v. Filer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in contemplation of equity they (the plaintiffs) waited altogether too long. Their laches was gross, and it stands wholly unexcused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mogk v. Stroecker
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.