O'Reilly v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 418 · 1886
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1974 · most notably Pine River Logging Improvement Company v. United States (1902), Creede Cripple Creek Mining Milling Company v. Uinta Tunnel Mining Transportation Company (1905)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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 Jennison v. Kirk · Jackson v. Roby · Stringfellow v. Cain
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that the mineral lands of the United States are open to exploration and purchase only by citizens of the United States, or by those who have-declared their intention to become such; and, had the objection been taken in the court below that such citizenship of the plaintiffs had not been shown, it might, if not obviated, have been fatal. There is, however, nothing in the record to show that it was raised below.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But findings are not to be construed with the strictness of special pleadings. * * * Defects of form should be called to the attention of the trial court by the objecting party, and the requisite correction of the findings would seldom be denied.””
1 later decision 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.