Hogan v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 605 · 1865
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1953
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A difficulty had occurred at the land office, at an early day, in respect to the form of patent certificates and of patents, arising out of applications to have them issued in the name of the assignee, or present claimant, thereby imposing upon the office the burden of inquiring into the derivative title presented by the applicant. * * * The result seems to have been, after consulting the Attorney General, that the Commissioner of the Land Office recommended a formula that has since been very genez-ally observed, namely, the issuing of the patent certificate, and even the patent, to the original grantee or his legal representatives, and the same has been adopted by the several boards of commissioners. This formula, ‘or his legal representatives,’ embraces representatives of the original grantee in the land, by contract, such as assignees or grantees, as well as by operation of law, and leaves the question open to inquiry, in a court of justice, as to the party to whom the certificate, patent, or confirmation should inure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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