Sherman v. Buick’s Empirical Analysis
93 U.S. 209 · 1876
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably Mahn v. Harwood (1884), Doolan v. Carr (1887)
13 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 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 Gibson v. Chouteau · Polk's Lessee v. Wendal · Rutherford v. Greene's heirs · Reichart v. Felps
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where any settlement, by the erection of a dwelling house or the cultivation of any portion of the land, shall be made upon the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections before the same shall be surveyed, . . . other land shall be selected by the authorities of the State in lieu thereof,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzales v. French
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.