Cox v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
270 F. 51 · 1921
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1976
1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Hart v. Cox · Nichols v. McCullom
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was then found that the marks of the survey had so. far been obliterated that it was practically impossible to locate the lines thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Hart“who has, prior to survey, taken possession of a tract of unsurveyed desert land,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Hart“has reclaimed or has in good-faith commenced the work of reclaiming the same,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Hart
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.