McFeters v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Belk v. Meagher · Gwillim v. Donnellan · Coryell v. Cain · English v. Johnson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, the term ‘owner,’ when used alone, imports an absolute owner, or one who has complete dominion of the property owned, as the owner in fee of real property. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Coffey
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.