Fisher v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2007
11 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 Sterling v. Jackson · State ex rel. Cates v. West Tennessee Land Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As no part of the lands in controversy was covered by navigable waters at the time the titles were issued, the lands in their entirety were subject to grant, and the original grantees acquired good and valid titles thereto to the full extent of the defined boundaries, which titles were regularly transferred to appellee and owned and held by him at the time of the trial of this case. That a portion of these lands, to wit, the land lying under the waters of Wet marsh and the waters of the two bayous, became subject to the ebb and flow of the tides of Trinity Bay, thereby converting them into and making them a part of the navigable waters of Trinity Bay, did not deprive appellee of the title to that portion of his lands so submerged. He remained the legal owner and holder of all the land claimed by him to the utmost extent of his boundaries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.