Maguire v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 650 · 1869
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982 · most notably Williams v. Kaiser (1945), Knight v. United Land Ass'n (1891)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Magwire v. Tyler
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the documentary evidence of title produced by the claimant contains no sufficient lines or boundaries to show that any definite and distinct parcel of land was severed from the public domain, the universal rule as settled by repeated decisions of this Court is that the concession in such a case creates no right of private property in any particular tract of land which can be maintained in a court of justice without an antecedent survey and location.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bolshanin v. Zlobin“be more in accordance with the usual practice of the court in such cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stanley v. Schwalby
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.