Mathis v. Thurman’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1955
5 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 Carew v. Love's Adm'r · Myers v. Peek's Administrator · Ely v. Blacker · Durden v. McWilliams · Carr v. Lester
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order, however, for the plaintiff to have a title superior to that of the original owner, he must hold under a purchaser or a creditor who purchased the property or gave credit to the person in possession three years after the commencement of the loan, as said section does not apply to creditors anterior to the loan or the expiration of three years from the commencement thereof. Carew v. Love, 30 Ala. 577 ; Durden v. McWilliams, 31 Ala. 206 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinney v. La Frange
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.