Grant v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Millhouse v. Drainage District No. 48 of Dunklin County (1957), Carteri v. Roberts (1903)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Whalin v. . White · Jackson ex dem. Bowne v. Hinman · Jackson ex dem. Church v. Miller · Lewis v. Morrow
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The defendant voluntarily entered into this contract, went into possession under it, peaceably occupied the premises according to its terms, and on the plainest principles of justice is estopped from disputing its validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oliver v. Gary
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.