McGrath v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1940
2 district · 7 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 Frink v. Branch · Scruggs v. Blair · Alexander v. Kimbro · Robertshaw v. Hanway
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If ttie bouse and lot was partnership property in such sense as that the social creditors could subject it to their debts, then it would be dealt with as assets of the firm in a court of equity, and'A. G. Sinclair and wife could not successfully hold it, or any part of it, as a homestead against the mortgagees. * * * If real estate be acquired with partnership funds, for partnership purposes, or is put into the company as stock, by agreement, then it will be considered as joint property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.