McEvoy v. Loyd’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1938
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Therefore the language in this conveyance, ‘ containing twenty acres according to the government survey,’ does not limit the quantity conveyed, providing there were more in this subdivision than that amount. For it was the manifest intention of the parties to convey according to the government survey, and if there had happened to have been a deficiency in this subdivision, the plaintiff would not have been required to make the quantity conveyed ‘twenty acres.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greer v. Squire
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.