McCarthy v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Cook v. Farm Service Stores, Inc. (1938), City of Boston v. Quincy Market Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. (1942)
41 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 Pizer v. Hunt · Geragosian v. Union Realty Co. · Hughes v. Williams · Levi v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co. · Gray v. Howell
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, for aught we know there may have been parol evidence clearly indicating that the petitioner did not have actual notice of any prior unrecorded deed af fecting the land which he sought to register.”
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.