McGrew v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
255 F. 759 · 1919
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
March 1919
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on William Galt v. James Galloway Jun · Galloway v. Finley · Bartlett v. Brown · Norfleet v. Russell · Neal v. Nelson
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As there was substantial evidence to warrant a finding by the jury that William Pruett, the grantee of the plaintiff, and under whom plaintiff claims title, was, at the time the patent was .issued by the county court, dead, the court erred in refusing to submit the case to the jury under proper instructions on that issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGrew v. Byrd
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