Halsted v. Buster’s Empirical Analysis
140 U.S. 273 · 1891
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1916
6 federal appellate · 3 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 Burgess v. Seligman · Armstrong v. Morrill · Halsted v. Buster · The Lessee of Robert Scott v. Silas Ratliffe
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This question must be answered in the negative. It might be sufficient to refer to the case of Bryan v. Willard, 21 W. Va. 65 . In that ease the precise question was before the Supreme Court of Appeals of that state, and decided against those claiming under the Martin grant. * * * The cases are therefore identical. The same points were made and the same questions presented, with one exception, to be hereafter noticed; and as the title to real estate, and the construction of deeds and statutes in respect thereto, is a matter of local law, this court, while exercising an independent jurisdiction, follows as a rule the decision of the highest court of the state.””
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.