Sherman v. . Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1978 · most notably Baker v. . Oakwood (1890), Graham v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. (1901)
1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Baldwin v. . Brown · Adams v. Rockwell · Vosburgh v. . Teator · House v. . McCormick · Jackson, ex dem. Bowen v. Burton
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine as to the practical location of a boundary line is well settled in the courts. It was adopted as a rule of repose, with a view of quieting titles, and rests upon the same ground as the statute in reference to adverse possession which has continued for a period of twenty years. Baldwin v. Brown, 16 N. Y. 359 ; Adams v. Rockwell, 16 Wend. 285 . It applies not only to cases of disputed boundary, but to those about which there can be no real question. See cases last cited; also Vosburgh v. Teator, 32 N. Y. 561 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Hayes
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.