Adam v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 591 · 1880
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1988 · most notably United States v. Title Insurance & Trust Co. (1924), State Ex Rel. Dos Anigos, Inc. v. Lehman (1930)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Beard v. Federy · Miller v. Dale
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘But the United States, in dealing with parties claiming under Mexican grants, lands within the territory ceded by the treaty of Mexico, never made pretense that it was the owner of them. When, therefore, guided by the action of the tribunals established to pass upon the validity of these alleged grants, the government issued a patent, it was in the nature of a quitclaim,—an admission that the rightful ownership had never been in the United States, but had passed at the time of the cession to the claimant, or to those under whom he claimed. . . .’ “It is perhaps more accurate to say that the action of the United States in such cases is a confirmation rather than a quit claim.” ( 217 U.S. at p. 227 .)”
3 later decisions 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.