Marriner v. Dennison’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Beverage v. Canton Placer Mining Co. (1955), Russell v. Ramm (1927)
46 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.
Relationships
Relies on Stanley v. Sutherland · Baldwin v. Kerlin · Stanley v. Green · Quinnin v. Reimers · McConnell v. Brillhart
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is, that where the description, so far as it goes, is consistent but does not appear to be complete, it may be completed by extrinsic parol evidence, provided a new description is not introduced.””
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.