Ruckman v. Cory’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 387 · 1889
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1986 · most notably Pigeon's Case (1913), Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Sun Oil Co. (1951)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 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 Winchester Partridge Manuf'G Co v. Creary · Steinbach v. Stewart
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ Laches,’ the supreme court of Illinois has well said, ‘ cannot be imputed to one in the peaceable possession of land, for delay in resorting to a court of equity to correct a mistake in the description of the premises in one of the conveyances through which the title must be deduced. The possession is notice to all of the possessor’s equitable rights, and he need to assert them only, when he may find occasion to do so.’” Citing authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.