Donegan v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Estate of Hite (1909), Rossi v. Davis (1939)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Calhoun v. Thompson · Preslar v. Stallworth
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To relieve him under such circumstances, and, at the same time, to visit her with the penalty of a forfeiture, would be, in effect, to permit the law to place a premium on artifice, and to suffer the just reproach of seeking after the shadow instead of the substance."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kershaw v. Kershaw“[a]nd the participation of David Wade, Jr., in such contest, was of the same character, however deficient in the candor of open resistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kershaw v. Kershaw“It is not denied that [an in terrorem clause] is a legal or valid condition, when attached to a legacy or devise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kershaw v. Kershaw
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.