Lipscomb v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1959
1 district · 14 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 Botsford v. Burr · Hidden v. Jordan · Case v. Codding · Evans v. Lee · Boulware v. Craddock
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the other point made in the demurrer, that the contract was in violation of the act of Congress providing for the entry of coal lands, we fail to find it supported by the acts' referred to. Had this agreement been made respecting the entry of agricultural land's, this point in the demurrer would not have been without force; but the act relating to the entry and purchase of coal lands on the public domain contained in the chapter of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning mines and mineral lands, is wholly unlike the laws governing the entry and acquisition of title by occupants of agricultural lands. This will be seen by a reference to the act itself, without our quoting it here or discussing its provisions.””
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.