Neilson v. Lagow’s Empirical Analysis
53 U.S. 98 · 1851
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1984 · most notably Williams v. Kaiser (1945), Helvering v. New York Trust Co. (1934)
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on The United States v. Thomas Tingey · Dugan Clark v. The United States · Hughes v. Edwards · The United States v. Phineas Bradley · Miller United States v. Nicholls
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, in looking into tlie deed from the bánk to the'trustees, we find that the grant is to them and their successors in trust to sell, and convey a fee simple absolute. The legal estate, being in trust, must be commensurate therewith, and will be deemed to be so without the use of the usual words of limitation. Newhall v. Wheeler, 7 Mass. 189 ; Stearns v. Palmer, 10 Metc. (Mass.) 32; Gould v. Lamb, 11 Metc. (Mass.) 84; Fisher v. Fields, 10 Johns. 505 ; Welch v. Allen, 21 Wend. 147 . As the execution of the trust required the trustee to have the fee simple in order to convey one, we are of opinion that the deed to them conveyed a fee, and consequently we cannot infer that the state court decided that only a life estate passed by the deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No land shall be purchased on account of the United States, except under a law authorizing such purchase.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Fox
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.