Holladay v. Daily’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 606 · 1873
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1989 · most notably Williams v. Paine (1897), McLaren Gold Mines Co. v. Morton (1950)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here the object, and the-sole object, of the -power was to enable, the attorney to pass the title freed from any possible, claim of the wife; and under the law óf Colorado'that result could be accomplished by the deed of the husband alone as fully without as With her signature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Paine
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.