Mower v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 380 · 1886
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1987 · most notably Clipper Mining Company v. Eli Mining Land Company (1904), United States v. D.K.G. Appaloosas, Inc. (1987)
9 federal appellate · 8 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 Atherton v. Fowler · Frasher v. O'Connor
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That in all cases where lands have been or shall hereafter be granted by any law of congress to any one of the several states and territories; and where said law does not convey the fee simple title of such lands or require patents to be issued therefor; the lists of such lands which have been or may hereafter be certified by the commissioner of the general land office under the seal of such office, either as originals or copies of the originals or records, shall bq regarded as conveying the fee simple of all the lands embraced in such lists that are of the character contemplated by such act of congress and intended to be granted thereby; but where lands embraced in such lists are not of the character embraced by such acts of congress, and are not intended to be granted thereby, the lists, so far as these lands are concerned, shall be perfectly null and void, and no right, title, claim, or interest shall be conveyed thereby.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relating to indemnity school selections in the State of California.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Durand v. Martin
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.