McMath v. DeBardelaben’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1954
1 district · 22 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 Horton v. Sledge · Godfrey v. Godfrey · Ormond v. Martin · Howey v. Goings · Arnett v. Bailey
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is apparent the statute to which we have referred treats a suit in equity for partition, though the title be legal, as essentially an adversary suit; and contemplates that all questions arising in its progress shall be within the jurisdiction of the "court, subject to its determination, avoiding delay in the administration of justice, and a multiplicity of suits with a consequent increase of costs. The court has full power to avail itself of the aid of a jury, and there is no danger that either party will be deprived of the constitutional right to a trial by jury of all litigated questions of fact. The very purpose of the statute is the enlargement of the jurisdiction of the court, rendering the remedy more efficacious and complete.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandlin v. Anders
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.