Ayers v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Greenstein, Logan & Co. v. Burgess Marketing, Inc. (1987), Kenedy Pasture Co. v. State (1917)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-recognized rule that the declarations of the surveyor may be pioved under the circumstances existing at the time of the trial of this cause. Such evidence can certainly rank no higher, and cannot be so safe or satisfactory, as evidence written down by the surveyor at the time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tracy v. Eggleston
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.