MacDonald v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 821 · 1941
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably Cascade Natural Gas Corporation v. El Paso Natural Gas Co People of State of California (1967), Great Northern Ry Co v. United States (1942)
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 301 · 43 U.S.C. § 934 · 43 U.S.C. § 940
Relies on Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Joy v. City of St Louis · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Townsend · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Soderberg
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to promote settlement and to enhance the value of the public domain”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Idaho v. Hodel
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.