Owens v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1956
8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“describes the land, not by specific boundaries, hut by its quality, and is a legislative grant of all the public lands within the state, of the quality mentioned. The patent is matter of ’evidence . and description by metes and bounds. The office of 'the-patent is to make the description of the lands definite and conclusive as between the United States and the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wright v. Roseberry
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.