Morgan v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1975
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all such cases, where it comes to locate again the survey so. made, the object is to reproduce if possible, or as near as may be, what was originally done in appropriating the land by the survey. * * * There are several means which may be adopted. The rule is to prefer the best evidence. Therefore marked corners, i. e., those clearly identified, and which are notorious objects, are seized upon as the most satisfactory; then natural objects not marked, such as a stream, a ridge, a cliff, or the like, for they, while not so exact, are nevertheless reasonably sure to afford satisfactory evidence of the location of the patent at or near that point; then calls for the lines of other patents which are of record, and which are susceptible of definite and certain location; ■ then courses; and then distances, in the order named.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowe v. Kidd
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.