Galliher v. Cadwell’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 368 · 1892
Citation profile
206 federal appellate · 65 district · 143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 626 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Holmberg v. Armbrecht (1946), Costello v. United States (1961)
206 federal appellate · 65 district · 143 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Hayward v. National Bank · Brown v. County of Buena Vista · Harwood v. Railroad Co.
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 626 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“laches is not like limitation, a mere matter of time; but principally a question of the inequity of permitting the claim to be enforced, an inequity founded upon some change in the condition or relations of the property or the parties.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““At that time, and by that act, all her rights of every kind and nature were ended, and the land was fully restored to the public domain, free for occupation and purchase by any other citizen, as though there never had been any semblance of occupation or entry.””
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.