Pope v. . Hanmer’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1957
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to me incongruous to say that a person claims title under a written instrument to land not included in the instrument, and the language of section 82 [our section 47] repels such an idea.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. Groves
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.