Medlin v. . Buford’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2014
14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The distinction between void and voidable deeds becomes highly important in its consequences to third persons, 'because nothing can be founded upon a deed that is absolutely void, whereas from those which are only voidable, fair titles may flow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would be immaterial whether the plaintiff is an innocent party, since, the deed being a nullity, no rights could be asserted under it in favor of any person whomsoever”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Furst v. . Merritt
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.