Rich v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis
37 F. 273 · 1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1939
4 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 Barney v. Baltimore City · Ellis v. Davis · Robinson v. Campbell · Henry Suydam v. Robert Broadnax · Seaver v. Bigelows
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.
““There is no question of the jurisdiction of a court of equity to make partition of lands, in which action all the equities between the coparceners may be considered and adjusted. But I understand the rule to be likewise inflexible that, in a partition suit, either at law or in equity, the title to the land cannot be litigated. Where there is an adverse holding under claim of exclusive right,'amounting to an ouster among tenants in common, it destroys the .unity of possession, and takes away the right of partition. Resort must first be had to the action of ejectment at law. ‘If one coparcener disseise another, during his disseisin a writ of partition doth not lie between thorn for “non tenant insimul et pro indiviso.” ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson v. Sullivan
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.