United States v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 182 · 1888
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Block v. North Dakota Board of University and School Lands North Dakota Board of University and School Lands (1983), United States v. State of Minnesota (1926)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hagar v. · United States v. State of Louisiana · Emigrant Company v. County of Adams · Mills Iowa v. Burlington
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the appeal to this court by the United States, 123 U. S. 32 , it was said in the opinion of the court delivered by Mr. Justice Field, that the statute of limitations did not seem to have any application to the demand arising upon the swamp-land acts; and that, as the Commissioner of the General Land Office had not found and certified the amount due to the State from the sales of swamp lands until the 30th of June, 1885, and the suit was commenced in September, 1886, the limitation of the statute did not apply to the case.””
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.