Patrick v. Dryden’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1911
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which includes in its general courses, a prior claim, it does not pass to the patentee the title of the Commonwealth in and to the lands covered by such prior claim, subject only to the title, whatever it may be, in -the prior claimant; but, if that title is only a prior entry, and becomes vacated by neglect to survey and return the plat, • my one may lay a warrant on the same, as in other, cases vacant and unappropriated lands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Halsted v. Buster“Where a patent is issued in pursuance of the act of 1788,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Halsted v. Buster
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.