Maynard v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
1813
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 1962 · most notably James Carver v. James Jackson (1830), Cook v. Brown (1857)
48 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Brooks v. Marbury · Jackson ex dem. Russell v. Rowland · Marbury v. Brooks · Gilbert v. North American Fire Insurance · Church v. Gilman
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act of registering a deed does not amount to a delivery of it; there not appearing any assent on the part of the son, or even any knowledge that the deed had been executed in his favor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meade v. Robinson
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.