Baines v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 789 · 1884
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1947
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This day came the plaintiff. C. P. Huntington, by his attorneys, and the court, having maturely considered all the questions raised upon the motions of Henry Clark and G. W. Norris to set aside the verdict, and on the answer of C. P. Huntington, and upon said C. P. Huntington’s motion to vacate said rule and award him a writ of possession for the land claimed for the plaintiff, is of the opinion that said motion for a rule came too late, and was therefore improvidently awarded, and is dismissed without prejudicing any rights, if any they have, in any other proceeding, and that the plaintiff is entitled to a writ of possession of and for said land. It is therefore ordered that the said rule against said C. P. Huntington on the motion of said Clark and G. W. Norris be and the same is discharged without prejudice as aforesaid, and that a writ of possession do issue in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant John Lewis Taylor for the land as set out in the verdict and the judgment, thereon rendered in the District Court of the United States for the District of West Virginia, on the 13th day of October, 1875, and now in this court remaining. And the clerk is directed to issue said writ directing the marshal of the district of West Virginia to deliver possession of the said tracts of land to the said C. P. Huntington.””
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.