Walden v. Knevals’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 373 · 1885
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1935 · most notably Maynard v. Hill (1888), Buttz v. Northern Pacific Railroad (1886)
3 federal appellate · 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 Van Wyck v. Knevals · Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Dunmeyer
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case •mentioned we held that the route must be considered as ‘ definitely fixed,’ when it had ceased to be the subject of change at the volition of the company: that until the map designating the route of the road was filed with tho secretary of the interior, the company was at liberty to adopt such a route as it might deem best, after an examination of tho ground had disclosed the advantages of different routes. But it was held that when the route was adopted by the company, and a map designating it was filed with the secretary of the interior, and accepted by that officer, the route was established. In the language of the act, it was ‘ definitely fixed,’ and could not be the subject of further change, so as to affect the grant, except by legislative consent; and that no further action was required on the part of the company to establish the route.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
1 later decision 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.