Jordan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1963
7 state decisions
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 Paine v. Foster · Bockfinger v. Foster
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as the courts are concerned the findings of fact by the land department in a contest proceeding are as conclusive and binding upon the courts as the verdict of a jury in their own tribunal, and the only inquiry the court can make is, Was there any evidence on which to base the finding?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harnage v. Martin
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.