Mercil v. Broulette’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1995
1 federal appellate · 5 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 St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. v. Broulette · Stearns v. Sampson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a person lawfully entitled to possession of real property can make peaceable entry, even while another is in occupation, the entry, in contemplation of law, gives or restores to him complete possession. And it has even been held that it is not unlawful for him to resort to such means, short of the employment of force, as will render further occupation by the other impracticable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pellowski v. Burke
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.