Lewis v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
30 U.S. 470 · 1831
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1987
5 federal appellate ·
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 Lessee of Parrish v. Ferris · Lessee of Lewis v. Stammers
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best interests of society require that causes of action should not be deferred an unreasonable time. This remark is peculiarly applicable to land titles. Nothing so much retards the growth and prosperity of a country as insecurity of titles to real estate. Labor is paralyzed, where the enjoyment of its fruits is uncertain; and litigation without limit produces ruinous consequences to individuals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nichols v. Rysavy
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.