Kansas Pac Ry Co v. Dunmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably Doolan v. Carr (1887), Buttz v. Northern Pacific Railroad (1886)
5 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Van Wyck v. Knevals · Newhall v. Sanger · Sherman v. Buick · Water and Mining Company v. Bugbey
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For we are of opinion, that under this grant, as under many other grants containing the same words, or words to •the same purport, the act which fixes the time of definite location is the act of filing the map or plat of this line in the office ■of the commissioner of the general land office. “The necessity of having certainty in the act fixing this time is obvious. Up to that time the right of the company to no definite section or part of section is fixed. Until then many rights to the land along which the road finally runs may attach which will be paramount to that of the company building the road. After this no such rights can attach, because the right of the company becomes by that act vested. It is important, therefore, that this act fixing these rights shall be one which is open to inspection. At the same time it is an act to be done by the company. The company makes its own preliminary and final surveys by its own officers. It selects for itself the precise line on which the road is to be built, and it is by law bound to report its action by filing its map with the ■commissioner, or rather in his office. The line is then fixed. The company cannot alter it so as to affect the rights of any other party. Of course, as soon as possible the commissioner ought to send copies of this map to the registers and receivers through whose territory the line runs. But he may delay this, or neglect it for a long time, and parties may assert claims to some of these lands, originating ”
2 later decisions 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.