Montgomery v. Samory’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 482 · 1878
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Christmas v. Russell · Webster v. Reid · Ludlow v. Ramsey · McWaters v. Smith
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the title to real estate is governed by the laws of the place where it is situated; the universal rule being that the title to such property can only be acquired, passed, or lost according to the lex loci rei sitae.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.