Downing v. Ringer’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably Marriott Financial Services, Inc. v. Capitol Funds, Inc. (1975), State Ex Rel. Connecticut Fire Insurance v. Cox (1924)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The penalty inflicted by the act concerning plats of towns and villages implies a prohibition against the sale of lots before the requisitions of the act are complied with, and the courts will not enforce a contract entered into against the spirit and policy of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.