State of Lowa v. McFarland State of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 471 · 1884
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 8 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Commissioner v. Brown (1965), Provost v. United States (1926)
65 federal appellate · 8 district · 27 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 United States v. Moore · The United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina · Edwards' Lessee v. Darby · United States v. George Macdaniel
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A sale, in the ordinary sense of the word, is a transfer of property for a fixed price in money or its equivalent', State of Iowa v. McFarland, 110 U.S. 471 , 478, 4 S.Ct. 210, 28 L.Ed. 198; * * *.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“When each of these acts speaks of lands ‘ sold by Congress,’ , ‘five per cent of -,the net proceeds’ of which shall be reserved and be ‘disbursed’ or ‘appropriated’ for the,benefit of the States in which the land lies, it evidently has in view sales in the ordinary sense, from which the United States receive'proceeds, in the shape of money payable into the treasury, out of which the five per cent may be reserved and paid to the State; and does not intend to include lands promised and granted by the-United States as a reward for military service, for which nothing is received into the treasury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Culver v. Uthe
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.