Evans v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
71 U.S. 224 · 1866
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1894
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 Rutherford v. Geddes · Campbell v. Galbreath · Ross v. Barker · Blackmore v. Gregg
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case cannot be made intelligible without a brief notice of the very peculiar land law of Pennsylvania. The proprietors of the province, in the beginning, allowed no one man to locate and survey more than three hundred acres.' To evade this rule in after times, it was the custom for speculators in land to make application in the names of third persons, and, having obtained a warrant, to take from them'rvhat was called a “ deed-poll”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herron v. Dater
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.