Sinclair v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1961
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To say that in this state of case the appellants, although representing the true owner, * * * could forcibly eject the appellee from the premises, destroying [his property], his house and other property found in it, is to assert a proposition which, we think, has no foundation in law. It is to dispense with actions for trying the title or right to possession of land. It is, as Mr. Cooley says, to make a. man judge in his own cause with the right to-confirm his judgment; to allow him to employ force against a peaceable party; to invite a, breach of the peace and a public disturbance instead of a legal settlement of disputed titles.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Biggs
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.