Fitzgerald v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1966
21 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the particular land has been wrongfully patented, and it is rightfully a part of the public domain, the remedy of the State is an action in the District Court prosecuted by the Attorney General.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Giles · Barrow v. Boyles“The land here involved was patented to Ashbel Smith in the year 1859 and it is now held under that patent. The patent has never been annulled by any suit at the hands of the State. For more than sixty years the State has recognized its validity so far as indicated by any action on its part. As between the State and other parties, therefore, the land has the status of titled land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Giles“It was for this reason that the Commissioner refused to issue the permit, and his action must be approved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Giles
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.