Deering v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably 91 So. 2d 795 - Hayes v. Bowman (1957), Pembroke Pembroke v. Peninsular Terminal Co. (1933)
34 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 Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois · Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago · Appleby v. City of New York · Brickell v. Trammel · State ex rel. Ellis v. Gerbing
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Purchaser to have right to bulkhead. In case any such islands or submerged lands are sold by the trustees according to the provisions of Sections 1061 and 1062, the purchaser shall have the right to bulkhead and fill in same as provided by Section 2460 of these Revised General Statutes, without, however, being required to connect the same with the shore or with the permanent wharf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“or sand bars and shallow banks along the shores of the mainland in which the title is not, at this date, invested in prior parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caples v. Taliaferro
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.