Eads v. Brazelton’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Treasure Salvors, Inc. v. Unidentified Wrecked & Abandoned Sailing Vessel (1981), Foulke v. New York Consolidated Railroad (1920)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 T. & W. Brandon v. Planters & Merchants' Bank of Huntsville · Ferguson v. Miller · Wallis v. Mease
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his intention to possess was useless without detention of the property; he had not found the lead in the required sense of discovering it and taking it up, he was not a finder, in that he had not moved the wrecked property or secured it ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“his boat over the wreck, with the means to raise its valuables, and with persistent efforts directed to raising the lead,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“never attained to the possession of the wreck ... he therefore had no title to it by occupancy.”
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.