Dyal v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Henson v. Bridges (1962), McDonald v. Taylor (1946)
5 federal appellate · 20 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 Austin v. Southern Home Building & Loan Ass'n · Flannery & Co. v. Hightower · Walker v. Neil · Royall v. Lessee of Lisle · Walker v. Steffes
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession of land is notice of whatever right or title the occupant has.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notice sufficient to excite attention and put a party on inquiry shall be notice of everything to which it is afterwards found such inquiry might have led. Ignorance of a fact, due to negligence, shall be equivalent to knowledge, in fixing the rights of parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toms v. Knighton
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.