DeVall v. DeVall’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1968 · most notably Bossert Corp. v. City of Norwalk (1968), Griffin v. Griffin (1920)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Thompson v. Whitman · Cole v. Cunningham · Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance · William M'Elmoyle for the Use of Isaac Bailey v. John J Cohen
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled that in a law action the sums of money paid by a party to the official reporter as his legal fees must be taxed in the lower court and cannot be entered here as a disbursement.””
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.