Searl v. School-Dist. No. 2’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur (1973), Seaboard Air Line Ry Co v. United States
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Kohl v. United States · Lessee James Ewing v. Jacob Burnet · John Van Ness v. Perez Pacard · Jerome Pillow v. Truman Roberts · Garrison v. The City of New York
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile defects in the title might not be urged against it as destroying color, they might have an important and legitimate influence in showing a want of confidence and good faith in the mind of the vendee, if they were known to him, and he therefore believed the title to be fraudulent and void.”
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.