Booth v. Upshur’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2011
2 federal appellate · 19 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no law fixing the effect of any call found in a grant, or giving one more weight or importante than another. Therefore, by merely looking at the face of the grant, which has several calls, the controlling call cannot be determined. * * * The lowest grade * * * is made to prevail over the highest grade * * * when, applying the calls of the grant to the land, the surrounding and connected circumstances * * * show that course or distance is the most certain and reliable evidence of the true locality of the grant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blum v. Bowman
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.