3 E.H. Smith 16 - McPherson v. . Schade’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 1957 · most notably 8 E.H. Smith 299 - Heller v. . Cohen (1897), 9 E.H. Smith 581 - Stokes v. . Stokes (1898)
46 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 Vought v. . Williams · Fleming v. . Burnham · Shriver v. . Shriver · Irving v. . Campbell · Margraf v. . Muir
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is a defect in the record title, which can be supplied only by resort to parol evidence, and the title may depend upon questions of fact, the general rule is that the purchaser will not be required to perform his contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruess v. Ewen
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.