Nobles v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Mack v. Newton (1984), Bell v. Moores (1992)
10 federal appellate · 69 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 Gilbert v. United States · Deaton v. Rush · Eckert v. Wendel · State Bank of Poplar Bluff v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Olsen v. Grelle
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] suit to set aside a deed obtained by fraud can only be maintained by the defrauded party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Deeds procured by fraud are voidable only, not void, at the election of the grantor. It is settled that such a deed is valid and represents prima facie evidence of title until there has been a successful suit to set it aside.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[fjorgery is the making without authority of a false instrument in writing, purporting to be the act of another.”
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.