McNair v. Lot’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1908
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Elmendorf v. Taylor
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus stands the law in eases directly between mortgagor and mortgagee, where it is seen the possession of the mortgagee with the bare omission to recognize the existence of the mortgage for the period of time which by the .statute of limitations would be required to bar a legal title is a bar to the equity of redemption.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clapp v. Leavens
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.