Duggan v. Slocum’s Empirical Analysis
83 F. 244 · 1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1921
2 federal appellate ·
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 Jones v. Habersham · Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings · Woodruff v. Marsh · Clarke v. Commissioner of Correction · Dalley v. City of New Haven
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 2951. All estates fcliat have been or shall be granted for the maintenance of the ministry of the gospel, or of schools of learning, or for the relief of the poor, or for the preservation, eare, and maintenance of any cemetery, cemetery lot, or of the monuments thereon, or for any other public and charitable use, shall forever remain to the uses to which they have been or shall he granted, according to the true intent and meaning of the grantor, and to no other use whatever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duggan v. Slocum
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.