Coryell v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1974 · most notably 29 Cal. 2d 414 - West v. Evans (1946), Webber v. Clarke (1887)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Wright v. Whitesides
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Actions for the possession of mining claims, water privileges, and the like, situated upon the public lands, are matters of daily occurrence, and, if the proof of the paramount title of the government would operate to defeat them, confusion.and ruin would be the result. * * * And with the public lands which are not mineral lands, the title, as between citizens of the state, where neither connects himself with the government, is considered as vested in the first possessor, and to proceed from him. This possession must be actual and not constructive.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““By actual possession is meant a subjection to the will and dominion of the claimant, and is usually evidenced by occupation — -by a substantial enclosure — by cultivation, or by appropriate use, according to the particular locality and quality of the property.””
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.