Frost v. Beekman’s Empirical Analysis
1814
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1981 · most notably Smith v. Gale (1892), James Sheppard v. Lemuel Taylor (1831)
38 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the question was between [the grantee under the escrow] and the persons to whom he sold, the deed ought to relate back, so as to give effect to his intermediate grants, and prevent him from defeating them. This is the amount of the doctrine in Jackson v. Bull, (1 Johns.Cas. 81) [1799]”
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.