Lessee of Margaret Lattimer v. William Poteet’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 4 · 1840
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vary in any degree the treaty line of [the Treaty of] Holston [a previous. federal Indian treaty]; so as to affect private rights, or the rights of North Carolina.” Id. 39 U.S. (14 Pet.) at 13 . The Supreme Court answered this question as follows:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Indian title being a right of occupancy, the State of North Carolina had the power to grant the fee in those lands subject to this right.””
1 later decision 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.