James v. Morey’s Empirical Analysis
1823
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Salvin v. . Myles Realty Co. (1919), Smith v. . Roberts (1883)
1 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The doctrine of merger as derived from the decisions of Great Britain and this State, seems to be this, that when the legal and equitable estates become united in the same person, the equitable is merged in the legal estate unless, first, the party in whom they unite manifests an intention to keep them separate; or, second, it is manifestly his intention to keep them so ; but when it is indifferent whether they unite or not, or when an intention to unite them is shown, then they shall be united.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilcox v. Davis
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.