Meyers v. Ferris’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2005
4 federal appellate · 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 James Moody Vaughan v. Henry Northup James Moody · Parsons v. . Lyman · In Re the Appraisal of the Property of Fitch · Maas v. . German Savings Bank · Forth v. Pursley
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there were creditors in the state of New York to whom the estate ... was indebted in large sums of money, and, before the administratrix of the estate would be vested with the right to require delivery of the property of the estate located in ... New York, it would be necessary for her to show that she had complied with the statutes of that state in such a manner as to give her such right of possession.” Meyers, 109 So. at 210 . Accordingly, her trover claim was dismissed on the ground that”
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.