Railroad Company v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 426 · 1880
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Laramie Stock Yards Company (1913), Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois (1892)
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 19 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 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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An act for a grant of lands to the state of Kansas to aid in the construction of the Northern Kansas Railroad and telegraph.” 14 Stat. 210 .”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage““AH persons acquiring any portion of the public lands after the passage • of the act in question took tbe same subject to the riglit of way conferred by it for the proposed road.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it could do so only on the same terms that it could refuse a recognition of its own previously granted right, for in such matters the State' would succeed only to the authority of Congress over the Territory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Van Wyck v. Knevals
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.