Jonathan Reed v. The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 274 · 1850
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), Teva Pharm. United States, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc. (2015)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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.
Relationships
Relies on Solomon Etting v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Fowler v. Shearer · Parker v. Smith · Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Springer
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true, that it was the duty of the court to give a construction to the deed in question, so far as the intention of the parties could be elicited therefrom.... But after all this is done, it is still a question of fact to be discovered from evidence dehors the deed ... for the jury to decide, whether the land in controversy is included therein, or, in other words, was intended by the parties so to be.”
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.