Magee v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Meadows v. Bierschwale (1974), Osborn v. Durant Bank & Trust Co. (1994)
14 federal appellate · 43 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 Mondragon v. Mondragon · Steere v. Stockyards National Bank · El Paso Electric Railway Co. v. Lee · Magee v. Paul · Johnson v. Wood
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to satisfy the demands of justice, courts of equity will indulge in presumptions and even pure fiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“■“* * * In the Mondragon case [Mondragon v. Mondragon] ( 113 Tex. 404 , 257 S.W. 215 ) it- was held that a receipt for purchase money was as respects the fights ' of the grantee- an executed contract to convey, and that', as such, it vested an'equitable title'in the grantee superior to the - grantor’s legal title. That is in1 accord with the general rule'that performance by the vendee in a contract to convey vests the equitable title in him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rudman v. Chandler“In order to determine what effect, if any, should be given to the Hoff deed, it is necessary that we first decide whether the property was the separate property of Mrs. Hoff or the community property of her and her husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoover v. Wukasch
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.