6 E.H. Smith 104 - Cosgriff v. . Foss’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1973 · most notably 6 E.H. Smith 551 - Stevens v. . Melcher (1897), 23 Cal. App. 598 - Ventre v. Tiscornia (1913)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Scott v. . Guernsey · Ford v. . Knapp · Mumford v. Brown · Green v. Putnam · Loring v. Bacon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They were not in the line ot restoration, but of a business venture. We know of no well-considered case in this state that would authorize an allowance for improvements under the circumstances. * * * Equity requires contribution from tenants in common only to prevent injustice; and, unless the rule is kept well in hand, it is liable to cause more injustice than it prevents.””
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.