Clements v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 394 · 1860
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1976 · most notably Logan v. Davis (1914), Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt (1911)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy of the Federal government in favor of settlers upon public lands has been liberal. It recognizes their superior equity, to become the purchasers of a limited extent of land comprehending their improvements, over that of any other person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Later statutes enlarged the. privilege (of pre-emption), so as to embrace lands not subject to sale or entry, and clearly evince that the actual settler is the most favored of the entire class of purchasers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.