House v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably Smith v. Bangham (1909), Bogard v. Barhan (1908)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 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.
Relationships
Relies on Maughlin v. Perry · Souffrain v. McDonald · Smiley v. Fries · Truett v. Adams · Whiteaker v. Vanschoiack
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule for determining the sufficiency of a description in a deed, or any other writing in relation to real property, is as follows: Can a surveyor, with the deed or other instrument before him, locate the land and establish the boundaries?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gamet v. Coop Et Ux.““When a deed refers to another, or to a map, for a more specific description of the land conveyed, the deed or map to which reference is thus made is considered as incorporated in the deed itself” — citing Devlin, Deeds, § 1030.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoffman v. Dorris““Any description by which the property might be identified by a competent surveyor with reasonable certainty, either with or without the aid of extrinsic evidence, is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMaster v. Ruby
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.