State v. . Bevers’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1971
9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is notorious that grants are always issued at the instance of the grantee and upon his suggestion that the land is vacant. The State does not warrant it to be so or the liability of the land to entry. Nor is it any fraud in the State to grant land that is not so liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newton v. . Brown
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.