Fletcher v. Pool’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1908
9 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 Commonwealth v. Dewitt
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.
“That the act was a present grant vesting in the State, proprio vigore, from the day of its date, title to all the land of the particular description therein designated wanting nothing but the definition of boundaries to make it perfect, no doubts can be entertained. The object of the second section was not to postpone the vestiture of title in the State until a patent should issue, biit ivas to provide for the ascertainment of boundaries and to prevent a premature interference with, the lands by the state legislature before they were so designated as to avoid mistake and confusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Roseberry
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.