McCracken v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Ott v. Keller (1976), Lawrence v. Cooper Independent Theatres, Inc. (1954)
31 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 Ducie v. Ford · Baldwin v. Baldwin · Emmel v. Hayes · Baldridge v. Centgraf · Eakin v. Wycoff
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon appeal from a justice of the peace court a district court acquires only the limited jurisdiction of the justice of the peace and cannot, in forcible entry and detainer cases, determine an ultimate question of title to real estate. In such cases title can be considered only as an incident to the right of immediate possession.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reeves v. McAdoo
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.