Arrington v. . Arrington’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1982
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence which had been admitted, the mortgage of 3890, showed that when the plaintiff began her action she did not have the legal title to the 1 %- acre tract, but only an equitable title thereto, to wit, an equity of redemption. The proffered and excluded evidence tended to show that the plaintiff, between the commencement oi the action and the trial, had lost her equitable title, and then had no right whatever to the possession of that tract. It should not have been excluded; for, in an action to recover land, the rule is the plaintiff must have the right to the possession, not only at the institution of the suit, but at the time of trial also. * * * ””
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.