McLean v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1969
3 federal appellate · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the title deeds of two rival claimants of land lap upon each other, and the claimant under the junior title, or his agents or lessees, is in possession of a part of the lap, and the other claimant is not in the possession of any of the lap, the possession of the entire lap is in the claimant under the junior title. It makes no difference how small the possession may he in the junior grantee or his tenant; if it has continued for seven years prior to the commencement of this suit, such possession has vested the title to the entire lap in him who originally had the junior title.” o”
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.