McGaughey v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1978 · most notably Walls v. Brundidge (1913), Earle Improvement Co. v. Chatfield (1907)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is argued in the outset that this is not a suit for the possession of lands, and therefore that neither the act proscribing a limit of five years for actions against jmrcliasers at judicial sale nor the general seven years statute is applicable. “There is no mistaking the object of the bill. It seeks to establish title to the lands in the appellees; and that being accomplished, to reap the advantages that follows ownership, i. e., possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Umsted
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.