James Jackson v. Elias Lamphire’s Empirical Analysis
28 U.S. 280 · 1830
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934), United States v. Locke (1985)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reasons of sound policy have led to the general adoption of laws of both descriptions, and their validity cannot be questioned. The time and manner of their operation, the exceptions to them, and the acts from which the time limited shall begin to run, will generally depend on the sound discretion of the legislature, according to the nature of the titles, the situation of the country and the emergency which leads to their enactment. Cases may occur where the provisions of a law on those subjects may be so unreasonable as to amount to a denial of a right, and call for the interposition of the court; but the present is not one.” (Emphasis supplied)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in all cases where there are filed or recorded . . . two or more deeds from one and the same person, or in the same right to different persons, if any person interested under either of them shall neglect to make his claim, and in all cases where several persons appear to have claims to one and the same piece of land, and any of them do not appear before the said commissioners, they shall cause a notice to be published in the newspapers aforesaid, and continued for six weeks, requiring all persons interested in such land to appear at a certain time and place therein mentioned, not less than six months from the date of such notice, and exhibit their claims to the same land .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The patent [here, the quitclaim deed] contains no covenant to do or not to do any furthér act in relatj.pi to the land; and we do not, in this case, feel at liberty 4o create one by implication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Lovett
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.