McDaniel v. McElvy’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Ryan's Furniture Exchange, Inc. v. McNair (1935), Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Sun Oil Co. (1951)
10 federal appellate · 148 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Holland v. Challen · John Roller v. Stephen Holly · Arndt v. Griggs
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * whether the complainant reasonably employed knowledge at his command”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is unnecessary, however, for the complainant to set out in extenso or to particularly define the title or claim of the defendant. It is sufficient, for purposes of pleading, to allege ultimate facts which show the assertion or existence — actual, apparent or potential— of such hostile title or claim, and its apparent invalidity or inferiority to title of complainant, or to allege the defect in the execution or acknowledgment of the faulty deed or mortgage in the complainant’s chain of title, depending upon which form of allegation is appropriate to the theory of complainant’s suit. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheffield v. Carter“and it was not intended by the legislature as a requirement that the complainant allege the facts tending to support that allegation as a condition precedent to the issuance of process.”
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.