McDonald v. Dabney’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Ellis (1931), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Clarke (1939)
51 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 Townsend v. Little · Kirby v. Tallmadge · Brown v. . Volkening · Austin v. Southern Home Building & Loan Ass'n · Wells v. American Mortgage Co. of Scotland, Ltd.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The correct rule is that when the occupation by one is not exclusive, but in connection with another, with respect to whom there exists a relationship sufficient to account for the situation, and the circumstances do not suggest an inconsistent claim, then such a possession will not give notice of a right by an unrecorded grant. [Cit.]”
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.