Bicknell v. Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 149 · 1885
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably Huntington v. Attrill (1892), Campbell v. Holt (1885)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Dickerson v. Colgrove · United States v. Schurz · Leffingwell v. Warren
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has more than once held that the lapse of time provided by the statutes makes a perfect title. “ In Leffingwell v. Warren, 2 Black, 599 , it is said that ‘ the lapse of time limited by such statutes not only bars the remedy, but it extinguishes the right and vests a perfect title in the adverse holder.’ “ And this doctrine is repeated in Croxall v. Shererd, 5 Wall. 268 , 289 ; and in Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 578 , 583.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. Cochran
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.