Rector v. Gibbon’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 276 · 1884
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1991 · most notably Gaines v. Caldwell George G Latta Gaines (1893), Turner v. Sawyer (1893)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Johnson v. Towsley · Shepley v. Cowan · Moore v. Robbins · Quinby v. Conlan
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The contract of lease implies not only a recognition of his title, but a promise to surrender the possession to him on the termination of the lease. They, therefore, while retaining possession, are estopped to deny his rights.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever congress has relieved parties from the consequences of defects in their title, its aim has been to protect those who, in good faith, settled upon public lands, and made improvements thereon. * * * There has been in this respect in the whole legislation of the country a consistent observance of the rules of natural right and justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manley v. Tow““When the legal title has passed from the United States to one party, when in equity and in good conscience, and by the laws of congress it ought to go to another, a court of equity will convert the holder into a trustee of the true owner and compel him to convey the legal title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Twine v. Carey
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.