Mead v. Mead’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1959
8 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 Central Savings Bank v. Shine
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since this opinion was written we have learned that Mr. Mead has died. He was alive, however, when the case was argued and submitted. Under these circumstances the judgment will be entered as of the day on which it was taken under advisement, which was January 28th, 1876. Such was the practice of the supreme court in the case of the Central Savings Bank v. Shine, 48 Mo. 456 , following the ancient practice in England as laid down in Cumber v. Wane, 1 Stra. 426.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoyt v. Hoyt
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.