Alexander v. Cleland’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1971
2 district · 17 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 Russell v. Southard · Hughes v. Edwards · Samuel Sprigg v. The Bank of Mount Pleasant · Thomas Morris v. Maria Nixon · Seymour v. Mackay
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words used in these sections seem to us to be as plain as any in the English language. There can be no doubt as to their meaning. The statute of limitations in cases of fraud is four years and the four years begin to run from the time the fraud is discovered by the party aggrieved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romero v. Sanchez“"However created, a lien (and a mortgage is a lien) is not an interest in land, but merely a security for the payment of a debt, and a contract to release a mortgage is not within the statute."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heath v. Gray
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.