MacGreal v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
167 U.S. 688 · 1897
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Cunningham v. Brown (1924), Myers v. Hurley Motor Co. (1927)
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sims v. Everhardt · Badger v. Phinney · Chandler v. Simmons · Lessee of Tucker v. Moreland
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of equity will look at. the real transaction, and will do justice to the adult if it can be done without disregarding or impairing the principle that allows an infant, upon arriving at majority, to disaffirm his contracts made during infancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sword to be used to the injury of others”
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.