Sparrow v. . Kingman’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1914
1 federal appellate · 14 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.
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.
““ There is no estoppel where .the occupant is not under an obligation, express or implied, that he will at some time, or in some event, surrender the possession; The grantee in fee is under no such obligation. He does not receive the possession under any contract, express or implied, that he will ever give it up. He takes the land to hold for himself, and to dispose of it at pleasure; He owes no faith or allegiance to the grantor, and he does him no wrong when he treats him as an utter stranger to the title.””
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.