Joyce v. McAvoy’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1943
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 Head v. Fordyce · Regla v. Martin
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute giving this right of action to the party in possession does not confine the remedy to the case of an adverse claimant setting up a legal title, or even an equitable title; but the act intended to embrace every description of claim whereby the plaintiff might be deprived of the property, or its title clouded, or its value depreciated, or whereby the plaintiff might be incom- , moded or damnified by the assertion of an outstanding title already held or to grow out of adverse pretension. The plaintiff has the right to be quieted in : his title whenever any claim is made to real estate of which he is in possession, .the effect of which claim might be litigation, or a loss to him of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.