May v. Duke’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1941
8 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 Lee v. Lee · Hutton v. Williams · Walls & Wire v. Grigsby
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““until satisfaction is made to the cestui que trust. The debt contracted by the borrower [by way of the devastavit] is his individual property, unless the cestui quo trust elects to treat it as assets, and when the trustee collects it, in the absence of an election by the cestui que trust, it is his own debt he collects.” May v. Duke, 61 Ala. 53, 57 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leach v. Gray
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.