Felix v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 317 · 1892
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 29 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Williams v. Lee (1959), McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona (1973)
89 federal appellate · 29 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · United States v. Kagama · Wood v. Carpenter · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca
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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decree prayed for in this case, if granted, would offer a distinct encouragement to the purchase of similar claims, which doubtless exist in abundance through the Western Territories, . . . and would result in the unsettlement of large numbers of titles upon which the owners have rested in assured security for nearly a generation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The disproportion is so great that the conscience is startled, and the inquiry is at once suggested whether it can be possible that the defendant has been guilty of fraud so gross as to involve consequences so disastrous.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“justice requires only what the law ... would demand — the repayment of the value of the [illegally conveyed] scrip.”
2 later decisions 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.