Grayson v. Muckleroy’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Penton v. Brown-Crummer Inv. Co. (1930), Lamar v. Lincoln Reserve Life Ins. Co. (1930)
79 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 Kidd v. Borum · McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Miles v. Caldwell · Crary v. . Goodman · Reeder v. Cox
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the statute (as we said in Cheney, Trustee, v. Nathan, 110 Ala. 254 , 20 So. 99 [ 55 Am.St.Rep. 26 ]) is simply to fix 'the status of the land in respect to ownership, — to re-establish by decree muniments of title to it. Without the Miswer, to the case as made by- the bill, such a decree could never be rendered.” (Italics supplied.) And in Grayson v. Muckleroy, supra (page 219) : “The effect of the holding in that case is, though the bill avers more than the statute requires and sets up the complainant’s muniments of title, the defendant cannot on demurrer to the bill attack the complainant’s title, but must first avow and prove at least a prima facie title in himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Venable v. Turner““ * * * Proof of peaceable possession, actual or constructive, was necessary to sustain the equity of the bill, and in the absence of such proof the court was without jurisdiction to adjudicate and determine the title. * * * ” [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Moorer
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.