Ricks v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1957
1 district · 7 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 Parsons v. Tuolumne Co. Water Co. · Arnold v. . Rees
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true the entry of the town lands by the corporate authorities or county judge is, under the act of Congress, £ in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according to their respective interests ; ’ but this provision does not establish that it was the intention of Congress to give the benefits of the entry to mere temporary occupants of particular tracts at the date of the entry, without reference to the character of their occupancy, and thereby, in many.instances, deprive the original bona fide settlers of the premises and improvements in favor of those who had, by force or otherwise, intruded upon their settlement. Were such the effect of the provision in question, the trespasser of yesterday, or the tenant of to-day, would often be in a better position than the parties who, by their previous occupation and industry, had built up the town and made the property valuable. We do not think Congress could have contemplated that results of this nature should follow from its legislation, but, on the contrary, that it intended that the original and bona fide occupants should be the recipients of the benefits of the entry to the extent, at least, of their interest — that is, of their actual occupancy and improvements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rector v. Gibbon“in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according-to their respective interests; the execution of which trust as to the disposal of the lots in such town, and the proceeds of the sale thereof, to be conducted under such rules and regulations as may be prescribéd by the legislative authority of the State or-Territory in which the same is situated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rector v. Gibbon
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.