Munford v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably Jackson v. Star Sprinkler Corp. of Florida (1978), Merz v. Tower Grove Bank & Trust Co. (1939)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Snell v. Harrison · MacDonald v. Rumer · Perisho v. Quinn
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“doctrine is too well settled to admit of either discussion or dispute, that when a court of equity once acquires jurisdiction of a cause it will not relax its grasp upon the res until it shall have avoided a multiplicity of suits by doing full, adequate and complete justice between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Haberman“The acceptance of property in excess of the amount due renders the entire conveyance void as against creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this court is limited to the issues contained in the pleading.”
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.