Duffy v. McGuiness’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1937
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Stantons v. Thompson · Purdy v. . Huntington · Wadsworth v. Williams · Aiken v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Knowles v. Carpenter
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that, in equity, where a mortgage passes by assignment to a purchaser of the equity of redemption, the two estates will not merge, if it is for the interest of the purchaser to keep them distinct, for protection against an intervening incumbrance, unless it be very clear that merger was intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Cady
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.