Ford v. McRae’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2015
4 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence was intended, we presume, not to correct or reform the deed, but to aid in rightly interpreting the descriptions. The object was, or should have been, to ascertain the intention, or understanding of the parties at the time of the execution of the deeds, as well as the true meaning of the descriptions of the premises therein, read in the light of the surrounding circumstances as they really existed at the time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.