Foster v. Mora’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 425 · 1878
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1977 · most notably Burnes v. Scott (1886), Federal Facilities Realty Trust v. Kulp (1955)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In actions of ejectment in the United States courts the strict legal title prevails. If there are equities which would show the right to be in another, these can only be considered on the equity side of the federal courts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnes v. Scott · Davis v. Davis
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.