Struve v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1955
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Robertson v. Norris, 4 Jurist, N. S. 155, Sir J, Stuart, vice chancellor, said: ‘The legitimate purpose, for .which the power to sell in this defendant’s mortgage deed was given, was to secure him repayment of Ms mortgage money. If he uses the power to sell, which he gets for that purpose, for another purpose, from any ill motive, to effect' means and purposes of Ms own, or to serve the purposes of other individuals, the court considers that to be what it calls a fraud in the exercise of the power, because it is using the power for a purpose foreign to the legitimate purposes for which it was intended.’ This ruling was affirmed on appeal.””
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.