Dubois v. Hepburn’s Empirical Analysis
35 U.S. 1 · 1836
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Certain Parcels of Land in the County of Fairfax (1953), Grimes v. Carter (1939)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 20 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shelby · Corporation for the Relief of Poor Distressed Presbyterian v. Wallace · Brown v. Dysinger · Harrington v. M'Shane
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any right, which in law or equity amounts to an ownership in the land, any right of entry upon it, to its possession or enjoyment, or any part of it which can be deemed an estate in it, makes the person an owner, so far as it is necessary to give him the right to redeem.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law does not require a payment or tender; an offer and refusal is made equivalent to a receipt of the money by the treasurer, and authorized a recovery of the land by suit, as if no sale had been made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grimes v. Carter
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.