Campbell v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 34 · 1889
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995 · most notably Margaret Williamson v. Katherine Osenton (1914), In the Matter of Albertn Moore an Infant by Next Friend (1908)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Frisbie v. Whitney · Hutchings v. Low · Jackson v. Allen · Radford v. Folsom
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was no such right' in advance of the survey. The State was under no obligation to continue the law in force because of the application of any one to purchase. It entered into no such contract with the public. The application did not bind the applicant to proceed any further in the matter; nor, in the absence of other proceedings, could it bind the State to sell the lands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Telfener v. Russ“we might doubt whether a right to purchase could be considered as conferred by the mere survey so as- to bind the State. Clearly,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Telfener v. Russ
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.