De Foresta v. Gast’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2009
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Hall v. Law · Newland v. Marsh · Morris & Thombs v. St. Louis National Bank · Gomer v. Chaffee · Knight v. Lawrence
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, defendant having color of title to the land by - virtue of his tax deed, and having paid all taxes on the land for more than twice the period prescribed by the statute, is entitled to its protection, provided he has acted in good faith in the transaction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silford v. Stratton“as a protection to a person holding in good faith under a mere colorable title. . ..”
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.