Marshall v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1990
1 federal appellate · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to all persons who had actual notice of the deed, their [the purchasers’] title was then complete and perfect both legal and equitable (Conveyance Act, § 21); but as to all others their title was at most only an equitable title.” <p. 326.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zimmerman v. Rose
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.