Greer v. Squire’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1989
13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Cragin v. Powell · Marcelin Haydel v. Francois Dufresne · Martin v. Carlin · Squire v. Greer · McEvoy v. Loyd
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he power to make and correct surveys of the public lands belongs to the political department of the government; ‘and the reason of this rule [citation omitted] is that great confusion and litigation would ensue if the judicial tribunals, state and federal, were permitted to interfere and overthrow the public surveys on no other ground than an opinion that they could have the work in the field better done, and divisions more equitably made, than the department of public lands could do.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the true corner is where the United States surveyor established it, notwithstanding its location may not be such as is designated in the plat or field notes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.