McCampbell v. Durst’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 1976 · most notably Campbell-Kawannanakoa v. Campbell (1907), Brown v. Trent (1912)
50 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These proceedings constitute a part of appellant’s claim and eventuate in the deeds, against both of which relief is directly sought in this suit. We think the suit is not collateral, but a direct proceeding to vacate the deeds,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peyton v. Peyton
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.