Cedar Rapids Co v. Herring’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 27 · 1884
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1915 · most notably United States v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1892), St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad (1885)
9 federal appellate · 7 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 Van Wyck v. Knevals · Ryan v. Railroad Co. · Grinnell v. Railroad Co. · State v. Bailey
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We arc of opinion that no right of selection in any of these lands accrues until the entire line of the road to he built has been established by the company, and iiled in tlie general land office at Washington, and that until then no duty devolves on the secretary to withdraw or withhold the land from sale or pre-emption. This is the necessary inference from the language both of the original grant of 1856 and the amendatory act of 1864.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.