Willoughby v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “provided, that where such surveys were made in blocks of two or more surveys, said respective surveys shall remain on the ground consecutively as placed therein, as shown by the maps, sketches, and field notes originally returned to the general land office,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Standefer v. Vaughan · Wright v. Gale

2. “That it (the Act) contemplated a segregation of the excess in such survey not patented and that such excess should be sold is also evident. But the method by which the segregation is to be accomplished is not provided, unless it is to be implied that the commissioner was empowered to determine, in his own way, what part should be considered as the excess. That as to the surveys which were unsold he might have been so authorized, and that his power would continue as to lands sold after the Act took effect we see no good reason to doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wright v. Gale

3. “An Act to provide for the ascertainment, distribution and sale of the excesses in surveys of land made for the school fund and to validate surveys of land as herein provided.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wright v. Gale