Loring v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
118 U.S. 321 · 1886
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably King County v. Seattle School District No. 1 (1923), Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary, Department of Interior Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary, Department of Interior Appeal of Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma (1986)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 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 Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Root v. Railway Co. · Grymes v. Sanders · Brine v. Insurance Co. · Sullivan v. Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is made to two or more persons, and the instrument is silent as to the interest which each is to take, the presumption will be that their interests are equal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person who, by virtue of any grant, assignment or devise, now is, or hereafter shall be entitled to the actual possession of lands, and the receipt of the rents and profits thereof, in law or in equity, shall be deemed to have a legal estate therein, of the same quality and duration, and subject to the same conditions as his beneficial interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.