Fairbanks v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1915
6 federal appellate · 18 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 Nelson v. Brodhack · Noble v. Blount · Holmes v. Braidwood · Bettes v. Magoon · McGonigle v. Daugherty
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The premises must not have been in the possession of the claimant, nor of any person under whom he claims, for thirty consecutive years next preceding the 27th of February 1874” (the date when the act took effect), “and no taxes must have been paid thereon for all that period of time, either by the claimant or those under whom he claims. “(2) The claimant must have failed to bring his action within one year after that date. “(3) The equitable title must have emanated from the Government more than ten years prior to that date. “(4) The possessor must have been in lawful possession at that date. “(5) His possession must have been continued during the whole of the year immediately succeeding that date.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Pease
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.