Chotard’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 586 · 1827
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Sturr v. Beck (1890), Stockley v. United States (1923)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Bruckner's lessee v. Lawrence
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That act by which an individual acquires an inceptive right to a portion of the unappropriated soil of the country, by filing his claim in the office of an officer known, in the legislation of several States, by the epithet of' an entry-taker, and corresponding very much in his functions with' the registers of land-offices, under the acts of the United States.”
3 later decisions 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.