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McNeil v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis

1882

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
5
states following
May 1985
most recently cited

1 district · 23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Carr (1974), Marks v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1925)

1 district · 23 state decisions

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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 Putnam v. Sullivan · Burson v. Huntington · Chapman v. . Rose · Eyerts v. Agnes · Bloomer v. Henderson

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Where a person not illiterate or of feeble mind, pos- • sessed of legal capacity to make a contract, executes- and acknowledges a deed without ascertaining its character and extent, upon the representations of another, he puts confidence in that person, and, if injury ensues-to an innocent third person by reason of that confidence, his act is the means of that injury, and he ought to answer to it.” (p. 15.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Guthrie v. Field
  2. ““The- object of the law in holding possession constructive notice is to protect the possessor from the acts of others who do not derive their title from him, not to protect him against his own acts, not to protect him against his own deed.” (p. 16.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. International Harvester Co. of America v. Myers

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.