Lincoln v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1930 · most notably McKee v. Gratz (1922), Eisenbach v. Hatfield (1891)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Barney v. Keokuk · Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · McCready v. Virginia · Yates v. Milwaukee · Canal Commissioners v. People
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no doubt of the right of the State to forbid any erections within such parts of the water as are strictly navigable, and to regulate the distance beyond which no private erections can be maintained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.