Fuller v. O'Neil’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Slaughter v. Qualls (1942), Houston First American Savings v. Musick (1983)
62 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The course marked out for the trustee to pursue must be strictly followed by him: for the method of enforcing the collection through such deeds is a harsh one. The grantor of the power is entitled to have his directions obeyed; to have the proper notice of sale given; to have it to take place at the time and place, and by the person appointed by him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under this plea a defendant may introduce anything applicable to the action of trespass to try title to defeat the title of his adversary; but if he wishes to assert an independent equitable right not involved in the issue as to title directly in controversy, he should present the facts by proper averments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If, however, the appellant had equities which entitled him to require the plaintiff to pay his debt before recovering the property, he should have set them up in his answer.”
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.