United States v. Minor’s Empirical Analysis
29 F. 134 · 1886
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1906
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The patent, which is the final record of the title, (Beard v. Federy, 3 Wall. 491 , 492,) was regular and valid on its face. The proper department of the government had examined the case on the evidence presented, adjudged the right to be in Minor, and issued the patent, accordingly, in due form. The patent could only be assailed by matter resting in parol dehors the record. Innocent parties were entitled to rely unon the record.” 12 Sawy. 167 , 29 Fed. Rep. 136 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.