Lewis v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1961 · most notably American Automobile Insurance Co. v. English (1957), Hammons v. Hammons (1933)
26 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 Batre v. Auze's heirs · Gillespie's Adm'r v. Burleson · Gerald v. McKenzie · Michan v. Wyatt · Mims v. Mims
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The conveyance in which Mrs. Wright joined is not alleged to have contained any warranty of title; but we may infer that it did not contain such warranty, for, in passing upon a demurrer to a bill, we can not aid the bill by supplying averments. The only connection which Mrs. Wright has with the case, is that she is the transferror, without warranty, to the vendors of the person who now holds the property. Whatever interest she may have ever had in the property, was all gone. She had no right or claim of any kind which could be, either directly or indirectly, affected by this suit. She was neither a necessary, nor a proper party defendant. (Citations omitted.)” [Emphasis supplied.] 38 Ala. 17, 20 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melton v. Melton
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.