Jean v. Dee’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1911
1 district · 4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This language is broad and comprehensive, and admits, of but one interpretation. From it it is conclusively made to appear that the grant by the government to the homesteader was subject to the condition that the grant thus made should' not be divested, nor in any manner affected, by any proceedings growing out of a claim which antedated the issue of the patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprinkle v. West““But even if such judgment were valid, it appears from the-facts to which we have above referred that the land in question could never be made subject thereto, for the reason that the claim upon which the same was rendered antedated the issuing of the patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprinkle v. West
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.