McCauley v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
1830
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
September 1986
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Holbrook v. Finney · Stow v. Tifft · Gale v. Ward
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The deed and mortgage were looked upon as constituting but one contract, bearing the same date, and delivered at the same time; and that as no interval of time intervened, between the taking and rendering back the fee, the case might be assimilated to the conusee of a fine, whose wife would not be entitled to dower, because by the same fine the estate is rendered back to the conusor; it was there considered as merely in transitu, and not resting for an instant; the grant and render being one entire act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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