Shipp v. Miller's heirs’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 316 · 1817
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Brine v. Insurance Co. (1877), Hunnicutt v. Peyton (1880)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Marsteller v. McClean
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very entry should contain a description of the land so certain that subsequent locators might be able to ascertain it with' precision, and locate the adjoining residuum. But that description is held to be sufficiently certain which, by due diligence, inquiry, and search in the neighbourhood, will enable a locator to find the land.”
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.