Gonzales v.’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 605 · 1887
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Nofire v. United States (1897), Interstate Land Co. v. Maxwell Land Grant Co. (1891)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Airhart v. Massieu · Hancock v. McKinney · Houston v. Administrator of Robertson · Byrne v. Fagan
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the rules of law possession will he presumed to accompany ownership, until the contrary is proved; a constructive possession consequent upon legal ownership is sufficient as against mere trespassers; that is, as against those who do not show some right of possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * A man whose title was good in 1876, when the constitution was adopted, whether his muniments of title were on record or not, could not be deprived of it by a simple ipse dixit of the constitution any more than by a legislative act. * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The extension of title by the commissioner, in these Mexican grants, completed the title without any patent or other act of the government, and notwithstanding the imposition of conditions subsequent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Surghenor v. Ranger
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.