Messimer v. McCray’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1984 · most notably Lieber v. Lieber (1911), Baker v. Baker (1952)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Fulkerson v. Thornton · O'Bryan v. Allen · Nugent v. Curran · Leach v. McFadden
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.
““The contract in issue and on trial in this case was the execution and delivery of the alleged lost deed from Birch to Orr, Sr. They were both dead. Birch being dead, Orr, Sr., if living, would not have been a competent witness on the trial of this issue, and the defense of Orr, Jr., being derived to him from one who would be thus incompetent under the statute, be was also incompetent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.