Mentzer v. Mentzer’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2013
17 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 Elliott v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Clarkson v. Creely
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiffs in error misconceive the case when they assume that the judgment must rest solely upon the ground of want of consideration for the deed. There was ample evidence from which the court •could, and as above indicated did, conclude that the grantor never intended by this conveyance to give the property described in the deed to the grantees named therein, and hence no title passed. Their refusal to return the property to plaintiff on his demand under the circumstances in evidence warranted equitable intervention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Branine
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.