McLeod v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee (1813), Morgan v. Bell (1892)
28 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 47 [which is § 204 of Rem. & Bal. Code] pointedly says that actions for injuries to real property shall be commenced in the ‘county or district’ in which the subject of the action, or some part thereof, is situated. If commenced there, they must be tried there, unless removed for reasons sufficient under § 51.””
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.