Mallory v. Agee’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Lee v. MacOn County Bank (1937), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Morrison (1984)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Pollak v. Millsap · Jackson v. Tribble · Wood v. Holly Manufacturing Co. · Powers v. Andrews · Shorter v. Frazer
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In order that a purchaser of land shall be protected against equities of third persons, he must have acquired at the time of such purchase the legal title by warranty deed. . . . `As a mere equity, that he acquires must be subordinate to older equities. . . .' Shorter v. Frazer , [ 64 Ala. 74 (1879)]" (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.