Middleworth v. Ordway’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1947
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hamlin v. . Stevens · Parsell v. . Stryker · Mahaney v. . Carr · Gall v. Gall
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The introduction of a waif into a family of affluence speaks of the benevolence of the family that receives it; but its long continuance in the home, its treatment by its foster parents, and their well-established declarations as to its status with respect to their property may well support a finding that an agreement existed in that regard.” Middleworth v. Ordway, 49 Misc. 74, 76 , 98 N. Y. S. 10.”
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.