Lopez v. McQuade’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1986
2 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 Bertles v. . Nunan · In Re the Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of Klatzl · Crisfield v. . Murdock · Bartkowaik v. Sampson · Mardt v. Scharmach
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear that the lien acquired by a judgment creditor of the husband is precisely commensurate with the lien acquired by a mortgagee of the husband. Certainly neither lien can cover any interest not possessed by the husband. The interest possessed and owned by the latter necessarily determines the scope of the lien and measures the interest acquired ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.