Libby v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Here the United States had issued a patent to Rogers ‘and to his heirs and assigns, forever’, subject to a condition, not that the title should ever revert to the United States, but that he should not alienate the lands without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. The government thus passed all its title to the land in fee simple, and a violation of the condition of the patent would not redound to the benefit of the United States, or enable it to repossess the lands, but was simply intended to protect the grantee himself against his own improvident acts, and to declare that the title should remain in him, notwithstanding any alienation that he might make.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Western Inv. Co. v. Tiger

2. ““No act of Congress or legislative fiat constitutes due process of law, whereby a vested right in or title to property may be either seriously impaired or destroyed.” “An estate in fee simple is where one has an estate in lands ■or tenements to him and his heirs forever, and such an estate is not inconsistent with a restriction on alienation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Highrock v. Gavin