Lessee James Ewing v. Jacob Burnet’s Empirical Analysis
36 U.S. 41 · 1837
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Galloway v. United States (1943)
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Springer · Jackson ex dem. Bonnell v. Sharp · Harris v. McGovern · Jackson ex dem. Gilliland v. Woodruff
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a most fallible standard by which to interpret a writing.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An entry by one man on the land of another is an ouster of the legal possession arising from the title, or not, according to the intention with which it is done. If made under claim and color of right, it is an ouster; otherwise it is a mere trespass. In legal language, the intention guides the entry and fixes its character.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is the exclusive province of the [trier of fact] ... to judge ... the credibility of the witnesses, and the weight of their testimony....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.