Hatcher v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1944
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Dobson v. . Pearce · Vallé's Heirs v. Fleming's Heirs · Bruck v. Tucker · Troost v. Davis · Herbert v. Rowles
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I wish, in coming to this conclusion, to be distinctly understood as affirming and maintaining the broad doctrine, as a doctrine of equity, that, so far as an innocent purchaser for a valuable consideration, without notice of any infirmity in his title, has, by his improvements and meliorations, added to the permanent value of the estate, he is entitled to a lull remuneration; and that such increase of value is a lien and charge on the estate, which the absolute owner is bound to discharge, before he is to be restored to his original rights in the land. This is the clear result of the Roman law; and it has the most persuasive equity, and, I may add, common sense and common justice, for its foundation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griswold v. Bragg“"We have no doubt that the decision in this case might well rest upon the doctrine of ratification, but we prefer to place it upon broader grounds, and to settle as far as this state is concerned, a more important question, properly presented by the record. Though, of course, in considering the general equities of the case, we shall not fail to bear in mind the testimony relating to the acts and to the knowledge of the respondent."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Probert“It follows that Hatcher having purchased the land in good faith, and having good reason to regard himself as the owner thereof at the time he erected the improvements thereon, should not be ejected therefrom without compensation for those improvements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Probert
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.