Grace v. Wade & Mains’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1990 · most notably Estelle v. Hart (1932), Newman v. Phalen (1919)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only question in this case is whether a vendee of land, who claims title by an unrecorded deed, or bond for title, or the purchaser, with notice of such deed or bond, at execution sale on a judgment against the vendor, wheré the creditor has no notice of the title or claim of the vendee at the date of the levy of the execution, has the better title.””
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.