McCaughn v. Real Estate Land Title & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 606 · 1936
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1981 · most notably Deputy v. du Pont (1940), Allen v. Trust Co. (1946)
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedReal Estate Land Title & Trust Co. v. McCaughn (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wells · Fleischmann Const Co v. United States · Howard v. Stillwell Bierce Manuf'G Co · Lehnen v. Dickson · Law v. United States
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ultimate question for the decision of the trial court was one of fact and its general verdict was conclusive. The Circuit Court of Appeals was without authority to weigh the evidence and to make its own findings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Bloom
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.