Mellen v. . Mellen’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Washbon v. . Cope (1895), House v. . Carr (1906)
68 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 Monarque v. . Monarque · Hoag v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Hetzel v. . Barber · Bailey v. . Briggs · Crittenden v. . Fairchild
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court does not entertain such an action to remove a doubt which might be created in the minds of persons dealing with the title, providing the means of forming a correct legal judgment are patent on the face of the instrument or proceeding by which the existence or nonexistence of the right in question must be determined.””
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.