Sterling v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Schulte v. Warren (1905), Willow River Club v. Wade (1898)
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Merrit Martin v. William C Waddell · Wright v. Roseberry · Lorman v. Benson · Moore v. Sanborne · Grand Rapids Booming Co. v. Jarvis
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since every person has the right of exclusive dominion as to the lawful use of the soil owned by him, no man can hunt or sport upon another’s land but by consent of the owner. It will be conceded that the owner of lands in this State has the exclusive right of hunting and sporting upon his own soil.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““As owner of the fee of the soil under the water, I think he is entitled to such exclusive right, and that the judgment should be affirmed. I may add, in conclusion, that, aside from the ownership of the plaintiff of the locus in quo, the only important question in this case is whether a man has the exclusive right of fowling upon his own land. If he has, it can make no difference with that right whether it be upland or covered with water.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Barber
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.