Ard v. Brandon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate · 16 district · 27 state decisions

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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If he [the homestead settler] does all that the statute prescribes as the condition of acquiring rights, the law protects him in those rights, and does not make their continued existence depend alone upon the question whether or no he takes an appeal from an adverse decision of the officers charged with the duty of acting upon his application.””

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Holmes v. United States · Cloquet Lumber Co. v. Burns

2. ““Doubtless the error could have been corrected by an appeal, and perhaps that would have been the better way; but when, instead of pursuing that remedy, lie is persuaded by the local land officer that he can accomplish that which he desires in another way—a way that to him seems simpler and easier —it would l)e putting too much of i'igor and technicality into a remedial and beneficial statute like the homestead law to hold that the equitable rights which he had acquired by his application were absolutely lost.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cloquet Lumber Co. v. Burns · Morrow v. Warner Valley Stock Co.

3. “"Hut we are of tlie opinion that the testimony shows a right anterior to his. pre-emption entry—a right, of which he was deprived by the wrongful acts of the local land officer, and which he did not forfeit or lose by virtue of his subsequent efforts to pre-empt the land.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cloquet Lumber Co. v. Burns