Irvine v. Irvine’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 617 · 1869
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1985 · most notably County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985), Moore v. Crawford (1889)
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Lessee of Drake v. Ramsay
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule that when one makes a deed of land, covenanting therein that he is the owner, and subsequently acquires an outstanding and adverse title, his new acquisition inures to the benefit of his grantee, on the principle of estoppel;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Crawford
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.