Douglass v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
131 U.S. 75 · 1889
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1962 · most notably Hood v. McGehee (1915), Sandler v. New Jersey Realty Title Insurance (1962)
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Sumner v. Williams · Duvall v. Craig · Pollard and Pickett v. Dwight et al. · Marston v. Hobbs
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The covenant of warranty and thát of seisin or of right to convey are not equivalent covenants. Defect of title will sustain an action upon the one, while disturbance of possession is requisite to recover upon the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rennie v. Gibson
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.