McElroy v. Hatheway’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1921
1 district · 5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No such bill can be maintained. The court has no jurisdiction to override the title of a residuary legatee in the way and on the grounds set forth, and the complainant has mistaken his remedy, if he has any. There may be cases, no doubt, when the court, proceeding in accordance with its own maxims, and keeping within the limits given to it in this State, would find some way for relieving the surety by hastening the principal, and preventing him from using his opportunity to oppress and defraud his surety.””
2 later decisions 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.