Hall v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 503 · 1879
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1953 · most notably Shively v. Bowlby (1894), Maynard v. Hill (1888)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · Schulenberg v. Harriman · Stark v. Starrs · Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. Kansas Pacific Railway Company
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tliere cannot lie a grant unless there is a grantee, and consequently there cannot be a present grant unless there is a present grantee. If, then, the law making the grant indicates a future grantee and not a present one, the grant will take effect in the future and not presently.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever a settler qualified himself to become a grantee, he took the grant and- his ■ right to a transfer of the legal title from the United States became vested. But'until he was qualified to take, there was no actual grant of the soil.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Their title, to the land was to come, not from their deceased ancestors, but from the United States. The title, it is true, was granted to them by reason of the possessory rights of their ancestor, but these were rights which he could not transfer, and which passed to them under the statute without any act of his. On his death his heirs became qualified grantees.””
2 later decisions 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.