Black v. Donelson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1972 · most notably Parkhill Truck Co. v. Wilson (1942), C & C Tile Co. v. Independent Sch. Dist. No. 7 of Tulsa Cty. (1972)
1 federal appellate · 34 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 Giselman v. Starr · Hogan v. Leeper · Pierce Oil Corporation v. Schacht · Holmes v. Halstid · Kelly v. Thuey
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the statute in requiring that the real parties in interest shall be made parties is in order that the decree rendered shall conclude all parties. In the instant case, the plaintiff, being authorized to act for his associates, and being permitted to have the contract made in his name, any judgment in the action would conclude them as completely as it would conclude the plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The test of whether one is the real party in suit is, Does he satisfy the call for the person who has the right to control and receive the fruits of the litigation? * * *””
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.