Airhart v. Massieu’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 491 · 1878
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1975 · most notably Lamar v. Micou (1884), Hanrick v. Patrick (1886)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 James Jones Charles Jones William Gorman Robert Lott John Tippin Matthew Tippin and John Tally v. Catherine McMasters by Her Next Friend Manuel Ybarba · Conrad v. Waples · Hancock v. McKinney · Crosby v. Huston
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitution of the State, in section 4, article 13, requires the legislature to provide a method for determining what lands may have been forfeited and es-cheated. No law prescribing the mode of ascertaining forfeitures has yet been adopted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.