Steward v. Coleman County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 fact that, in order to determine its merits, a boundary must be located does not change its character and make it wholly a case of boundary.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. West Lumber Co. v. Goodrich · West Lumber Co. v. Goodrich

2. “Art. 4269. — The surveys of all county school lands heretofore made, either actually on the ground or by protraction and returned to the general land office, according to law, and upon which patents have issued, are hereby declared valid surveys, and the titles to the lands included within the lines of said surveys, as returned to the general land office, are hereby vested in the counties for which the same were made; and in all such surveys the calls for distance shall have precedence and control calls for rivers or natural objects when the calls for distance will give the quantity of land intended to be included in the survey and the calls for natural objects or rivers will not; provided, this law shall not divest any vested right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cross v. Wilkinson

3. “It will not do to say that the language `lands included within the lines as returned to the general land office' means merely such lands as are found on a trial of the question of boundary, to be so included; for that construction would make this provision wholly useless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cross v. Wilkinson