Allen v. Hawley’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2000
19 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it never could have been contemplated that a Court of Chancery, should become the superintendent of the private affairs of individuals, its legitimate province is to adjust the rights, and settle the disagreements of parties, growing out of such transactions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clawson v. Clawson
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.