Galt v. Willingham’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.2d 757 · 1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2006
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 United States v. State Investment Co. · Ayers v. Watson · The No. C-4
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.
“"* * * But in re-establishing the lines of a survey the footsteps of the original surveyor should be followed, and it is immaterial that the lines actually run by him are not correct. R.S. § 2396 (Comp.St. Sec. 4804 [ 43 U.S.C.A. § 752 ]); Ayers v. Watson, 137 U.S. 584 , 11 S.Ct. 201 , 34 L.Ed. 803 . Courses and distances yield to natural monuments and boundaries. This rule is so strict that even the government itself cannot question it * * *." (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.