King v. McAndrews’s Empirical Analysis
111 F. 860 · 1901
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1967
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Knight v. United Land Ass'n · De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Land Department of the United States, including in that term the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of the General Land Ofiice, and their subordinate officers, constitutes a special tribunal, vested with judicial power to hear and determine the claims of ¿11 parties to the public lands which it is authorized to dispose of, and with power to execute its judgments by conveyances to the parties entitled to them. * * * A patent of land within its jurisdiction, issued by the Land Department, is the judgment of that tribunal, and a conveyance of the legal title to the land to the patentee in execution of the judgment. When such a patent to land within the jurisdiction of the department is issued, it is, like the judgments of other judicial tribunals, impervious to collateral attack. The test of the jurisdiction of this tribunal is the true answer to the question: Had the department the power to hear and determine the claims of the applicants of the land and to dispose of it in accordance with its decision? If that question can be answered in the affirmative, the Land Department had jurisdiction of the case, and the patent which evidences its decision conveys the legal title, and is impervious to collateral attack. If it must be answered in the negative, then its conveyance is void, and is as vulnerable in a collateral action at law as in a direct proceeding in equity to avoid it. Land the title to which has passed from the United States before the claim on which the p”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seaples v. Card
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.