Marcus v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Nelson v. State Ex Rel. Quigg (1945), 80 So. 2d 322 - Tamiami Trail Tours v. Carter (1955)
25 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 Jones v. Jones · Bowery v. Babbit · Lucas v. Wade · Holmberg v. Hardee Trustees · Mitchell v. Mason
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may take into consideration the paper itself, or the instrument in connection with contemporaneous writings or agreements concerning the subject matter, or by the aid of extraneous evidence which will determine the decision of the question. The attitude of the parties relative to the conveyance after its execution may also be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Thomas
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.