McIver's v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
17 U.S. 444 · 1819
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1962 · most notably 17 Cal. 2d 13 - Klopstock v. Superior Court (1941), United States v. State of Texas (1896)
3 federal appellate · 13 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 McIver's Lessee v. Walker and Another
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reason of the rule is, that it is the intention of the grant to convey the land actually surveyed, and mistakes in courses or distances are more probable, and more frequent, than in marked trees, mountains, rivers, or other natural objects capable of being clearly designated, and accurately described.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKnight v. Broedell
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.