Ashburn v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
149 F. 968 · 1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1957
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 United States v. Wilson · Cruickshank v. Bidwell · Hannewinkle v. Georgetown · Rich v. Braxton · Pixley v. Huggins
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisdiction of courts of equity to' remove clouds from title is exercised for the reason that the deed, or other instrument constituting the cloud, may be used to injuriously or yexatiously embarrass the complainant’s title. There are well-established limitations upon the exercise of the jurisdiction. A plaintiff having the legal title, and not in possession, will ordinarily be left to his action of ejectment. This is the familiar doctrine of the federal courts” — citing U. S. v. Wilson, 118 U. S. 86 , 89, 6 S. Ct. 991 , 30 L. Ed. 110 ; McGuire v. Pensaeola City Co., 105 F. 677 , 44 C. C. A. 670 .”
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.