Eckstein v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Fleischer v. James Drug Stores, Inc. (1948), State Ex Rel. Rhodes v. Saunders (1889)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Willard v. Tayloe · City of Memphis v. Brown · Cushman v. Thayer Manufacturing Jewelry Co. · Jones v. Newhall · Ewins v. Gordon
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ For no other reason, apparently, than the arbitrary one that the remedy should be mutual, the rule became established that either party might maintain a bill for specific performance if the other could, although the party bringing the bill could have no other relief than the recovery of the same amount of money or damages, as would be recovered in a suit at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olsen v. Anderson
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.