Sanders v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
9 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 Charles Beatty v. Daniel Kurtz · Downen v. Rayburn · Chase v. Cheney · Ferraria v. Vasconcellos · White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends v. White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends
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.
““Although the legal title to the lot is held by trustees, the deed under which they hold does not prescribe any particular use to be made of it. The trustees hold it for the benefit of an unincorporated religious society, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the uses that can be made of it depend upon the ecclesiastical law of the Church, so far as it is not inconsistent with the law of the land....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[f]or every wrong there is supposed to be a remedy somewhere.”
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.