Adams v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 573 · 1897
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Zartman v. First National Bank (1910), Green v. Scully (1988)
11 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Green v. Biddle · Barden v. Northern Pacific Railroad · Snell v. Insurance Co. · United States v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad · Clement Hunt v. Christopher Rhodes
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A good and indefeasible title in fee imports such ‘ownership of the land as enables the owner to exercise absolute and exclusive control of it against all others.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Equity,' this court said in Hunt v. Rousmainier , 1 Pet. 1, 14 , 'may compel parties to perform their agreements, when fairly entered into, according to their terms; but it has no power to make agreements for parties, and then compel them to execute the same. The former is a legitimate branch of its jurisdiction, and in its exercise, is highly beneficial to society. The latter is without its authority, and the exercise of it would be not only an usurpation of power, but would be highly mischievous in its consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowman v. Reyburn“* * * forced to take the land subject to the railroad company's right of way over it for the purpose of prospecting for and mining minerals, which may be taken off when found.”
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.