McCune v. Essig’s Empirical Analysis
122 F. 588 · 1903
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1931
1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Gold-Washing and Water Company v. Keyes · Shepley v. Cowan · Gibson v. Chouteau · Dunbar v. Myers
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute expressly authorizes the issuance of the patent to the widow of the deceased homestead settler. It makes no provision for the children of such settler, and in its terms contains no recognition of any right initiated by him. The question presented is whether or not the widow was a donee in her own right of the land from the United States. If she were such donee, the statutes of the State of Washington were powerless to divest her of her interest or to charge with a trust the title so patented to her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Mayo
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.