Drollinger v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably Stevens v. McDowell (1940), Russell v. Ferrell (1957)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Long v. Clark · Baldridge v. Centgraf · Cue v. Johnson · National Land Co. v. Perry · Roberts v. Yaw
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . in an action for the possession of real property, in the district court, equitable as well as legal rights may be determined, and such relief can be granted as will do justice in the particular case. “. . . Whatever concession is made to him in this regard must result from circumstances rendering it inequitable that he should lose his entire investment a matter to be determined upon the facts of each particular case.” (pp. 506, 507.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gustason v. DeHaven
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.