Darst v. Gale’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1970 · most notably Pennsylvania Railroad v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad (1886), Memphis & Little Rock Railroad v. Dow (1887)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 Whitney Arms Co. v. . Barlow · Bradley v. Ballard · Jevne & Almini v. Osgood · Chicago Building Society v. Crowell
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trustees named were empowered to act separately, and in the alternative — that is to say, if, by circumstances, one became disqualified or was unable to act — another might act. The acknowledgment was taken by Grove, one of the parties named as trustees. This, unquestionably, rendered the deed void as to him; but we fail to comprehend how it adversely affected the deed as to the other trustees. He and they had no community of interest, and his becoming disqualified had no tendency to disqualify them.” Id. at 143 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.