Laughlin v. Fariss’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1952
10 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 Lacassagne v. Chapuis · Woodruff v. Wallace · Sproat v. Durland · Conaway v. Gore · Richardson v. Penny
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.
““The usual duplicate receipt of the receiver of any land office, or, if that be lost or destroyed, or beyond the reach of' the party, the certificate of such receiver that the books of his-office show the sale of a tract of land to a certain individual is proof of title equivalent to a patent against all but' the holder of an actual patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClung v. Penny
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.