Van Wyck v. Knevals’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 360 · 1882
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 10 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Maynard v. Hill (1888), United States v. Oregon (1935)
45 federal appellate · 10 district · 60 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 Schulenberg v. Harriman · Railroad Company v. Baldwin · Pixley v. Huggins
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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until the map is filed with the Secretary of the Interior the company is at liberty to adopt such a route as it may deem best, after an examination of the ground has disclosed the feasibility and advantages of different lines. But when a route is adopted by the company and a map designating it is filed with the Secretary of the Interior and accepted by that officer, the route is established ; it is, in the language of the act, ‘definitely fixed,’ and cannot be the subject of future change, so as to affect the grant, except upon legislative consent.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A third party cannot take upon himself to enforce conditions attached to the grant when the government does not complain of their breach.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“imports the transfer ... of a present interest in the lands designated”
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.