Irwin v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Gerlach Live Stock Co. (1950), Lux v. Haggin (1886)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So fully recognized have become these rights, and without any specific legislation conferring or confirming them, they are alluded to and spoken of in various acts of the Legislature in the same manner as if they were rights which had been vested by the most distinct expression of the will of the lawmakers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this state the larger part of the territory consists of mineral lands, nearly the whole of which are the property of the public,”
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.