Tidd v. Rines’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1913 · most notably Washington Timber & Loan Co. v. Smith (1904), Kellogg v. Olson (1885)
31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 People v. San Francisco Sav. Union · Braly v. Seaman · Lawrence v. Fast · Morrison v. Mendenhall · Cahoon v. Coe
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the legal title to real property can only be held by a person, or a corporate entity, which is deemed such in law, it follows that the conveyance in question vested no legal title or estate in the grantee therein named, because a partnership, as such, is not recognized in law as a person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ames v. Ames
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.