McCoy v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1987
2 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 Barnett v. Stanton · Hafer v. Cole · Stephenson v. Allison · Street v. Sinclair · Ward v. Reynolds
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, after the discovery of the fraud or breach of warranty entitling him to rescind, the purchaser uses and deals with the property as his own, or does other acts inconsistent with his right to rescind, then he is held to have elected-to ratify the contract and to have waived his right to rescind; . . . and, in such event, the only remedy left him for the redress of the wrong of the seller is either a suit against such seller for damages (ex delicto if there was fraud or deceit, and ex contractu if there was merely a breach of warranty); . . . or, if sued by the seller for the purchase price, an abatement pro tanto of the recovery by a plea of recoupment or counterclaim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tidgwell v. Bouma
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.