Reynolds v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably 36 Ill. App. 3d 433 - Lesser v. Village of Mundelein (1975), Van Buskirk v. Van Buskirk (1893)
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Sarah Boone v. William Chiles · Brown v. County of Buena Vista · Bacon v. Rives · Prevost v. Gratz · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Hay
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Therefore, if Sumner entered these public lands with land warrants owned by Reynolds, or by Reynolds and himself, and took the legal title in his own name, a resulting trust was thereby created in the lands entered in favor of Reynolds, in proportion to his interest in the land warrants, without regard to the express contract between them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warren v. Adams
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.