Hoofnagle v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
20 U.S. 212 · 1822
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1973 · most notably Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad (1893), St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. (1881)
10 federal appellate · 17 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.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a patent has been issued irregularly, the government may provide means for repealing it; but no individual has a right to annul it, to consider the land as still vacant, and to appropriate it to himself.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“obtained contrary to law, being founded on a warrant which was issued by fraud or mistake;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doolan v. Carr
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.