Ayers v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1978
1 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion, however, that it would not be proper to reverse the calls, and to run in reverse from the southeast corner for the purpose of ascertaining where the northeast corner would be found, by the measurement called for in the grant, if in fact the east line was not actually measured at the time the survey was originally made, there being affirmative evidence showing that the western and northern lines were actually measured on the ground. Whether all or any of the lines were, in point of fact, measured on the ground should be submitted to and decided by the jury; and, if all were so actually measured, then the calls may be reversed; if not, they should not be.” Page 312.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Platt v. Vermillion
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.