Clift v. Clift’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Lindsay v. Clayman (1952), Grasser v. Grasser (1948)
56 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only so much should be allowed for the improvements as the value of the property has been increased thereby”
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.