Lente v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Webster Lumber Co. v. Lincoln (1927), Howard v. Adkins (1906)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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.
“my forty near the Garrison lands, in Hernando county,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether such subdivisions contain forty acres or less, has in this State become as fixed and as well understood term to designate them as ever attached from common or general use to anything. No one can for a moment doubt that by the expression,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Sapre“both parties understood and were dealing as to a single half of a half of a quarter section, claimed to be owned by the intestate, Thomas W. Clarke, and lying near lands known as the Garrison lands in that county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Sapre
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.