Grigsby v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. William M. Rice Institute (1917), Howth v. Farrar (1938)
4 federal appellate · 29 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This definition doubtless was intended to give instances in which the chain of transfer would not be regular,, within the meaning of the statute ; but want of registration or of due registration in the chain giving color of title could have no operation in the matter of notice, and evidently was not intended to affect the right of a person holding under color of title; for, notwithstanding such irregularities may exist, the same protection is given as would be were the party holding .under ‘title.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.