Doyle v. . Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1913
1 federal appellate · 1 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sale of the goods to the plaintiff’s assignor Landers was complete and the transfer of the same was made before the proceedings in bankruptcy were instituted against Legrave & Co.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Le Master v. Spencer
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.