Albritton v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2018
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Knight v. United Land Ass'n · De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The two prerequisites of the right of an individual to attack the validity of a land patent are: first, that the individual making the attack had an equitable title or an inceptive right upon the land, antedating the issuance of the patent; and second, that the attack is aimed at the jurisdiction or legal authority of the officers of the land department to issue the patent. See, also, Smith v. Crandell, 118 La. 1052 , 43 So. 699 (1907) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That no purchase or entry of any public lands belonging to the state of Louisiana shall be allowed, when previous thereto, such lands have been possessed or improved or cultivated by any person, holding or claiming adversely to the party seeking to purchase or enter the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albritton v. Steere“even a patent from the government of the United States, issued with all the forms of law, may be shown to be void by extrinsic evidence, if it be such evidence as by its nature is capable of showing a want of authority for its issue .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.