Fletcher v. Cavalier’s Empirical Analysis
1832
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1961
18 state decisions
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The titles under which the defendants claim are what the law denominates just titles, and the possessors must be considered in good faith, unless the reference in the deeds of sale, to the title under which the conveyance is made, destroys that good faith.” Italics ours.”
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.