Travis v. McCully’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1961
11 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 Tobin v. O'Brieter · Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co. v. Sharrock · Harris v. Davis · Evans v. Local Bldg. & Loan Ass'n
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a case of equitable cognizance the appellate court will examine and weigh the evidence, but the findings and judgment of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is made to appear that such findings and judgment are against the clear weight of the evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““An action to cancel a deed is of equitable cognizance, and no party thereto is entitled to a jury trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Liles v. Bigpond
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.