Neer v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1915
2 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 Wolcott v. Des Moines Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the grantor has no title,, neither patent nor deed conveys anything. The state is not the primary owner of the soil, and until title is shown from the United •States to the state, a patent from the state of Kansas is no more than mere waste paper.” (Page 65.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Worden v. Cole
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.