Scott v. . Guernsey’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 1994 · most notably Brown v. . Quintard (1903), In Re the Will of Fowles (1918)
1 federal appellate · 89 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellants are not within the reason of any of the adjudged cases where relief has been granted in partition for money expended in improvements by one of several tenants in common.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Osmun
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.