Mette v. Feltgen’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Illinois Trust & Savings Bank v. VanVlack (1923), Merlo v. Johnston City & Big Muddy Coal & Mining Co. (1913)
36 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 Mittel v. Karl · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Heidorn · O'Neal v. Robinson · Ex parte Ray & Defoe
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the premises therein mentioned shall expressly be thereby declared, to pass not in tenancy in common but in joint tenancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if partition be not made between joint tenants....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.