Boggess v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1999
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Great Falls Co. v. Worster · Gates v. Salmon · Stark v. Barrett · Bartlet v. Harlow · Rising v. Stannard
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In making such partition, if the parcel sold and convoyed by one tenant in common” by metes and bounds “can be assigned to the purchaser as a part or the whole of the share of his grantor without prejudice to the cotenant, * * * the courts will so assign it, thereby making the purchaser’s. title perfect.””
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.