Hughes v. Menefee’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1915 · most notably First Nat. Bank of Buchanan County v. Connett (1905), State v. Stowe (1896)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Stonebraker v. Ford · Wright v. Bircher's · Bevans v. Bolton · Bryson & Hardin v. Penix · Wilson v. Milligan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mortgage to be effectual must point out the subject-matter of it so that a third person by its aid, together with the aid of such inquiries as the instrument itself suggests, may indentify the property conveyed.” Hughes v. Menefee, 29 Mo. App. 205 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Wade““A regular written mortgage duly acknowledged, but not recorded, is void though the creditor have actual notice of it.’1”
1 later decision 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.