Lewis v. Clements’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1946 · most notably Schock v. Fish (1914), Clark v. Duncanson (1920)
31 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 Chaffin v. McFadden · Sayer v. Brown
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person who has no interest in the title to real estate cannot maintain an action to remove a cloud upon the title to such real estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spalding v. Hill
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.