Ashley v. . Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 1913
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the policy of the public to have the vacant land appropriated by individuals. So far as the State is concerned, it is a matter of indifference who appropriates the land, provided it be paid for. Upon this ground it is settled that where an entry is made in terms of general description, it may be made certain, and the particular land identified by a survey, if it be done before the right of another enterer has attached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cain v. . Downing
How this case has been treated — in progress
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