Keyser v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2009
16 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 Gunzberg v. Miller · Miller v. Kerr · Lessee of William Brown and Wife v. Joseph Clements and Jonathan Hunt · Moran v. Lezotte · Morse v. Marshall
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The quarter lines are not run upon the ground, but they exist, by law, the same as the section lines. When the township and section lines are run, and the corners marked according to law, the quarter-section lines are ascertained on the plat by protracting lines across the section north and south and east and west from the opposite quarter-section posts set in the exterior lines of the section by the government surveyor, and smaller subdivisions are protracted so as to make one-half and one-fourth of a quarter section. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sala v. Crane““Pleading the general issue, without putting the title' in issue, in the trespass case, the defendant in that action could only contest the fact of trespass. The narrow issue-thus made excluded any assertion or trial of ownership of' the premises, and, for the purposes of that trial, conceded the title to be in Keyser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ostrom v. Potter
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.