Heckman v. Sutter’s Empirical Analysis
128 F. 393 · 1904
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1949
5 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · McCready v. Virginia · Malony v. Adsit · Pacific Steam Whaling Co. v. Alaska Packers' Ass'n · West Coast Improvement Co. v. Winsor
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that it has never been the policy of the United States to dispose of its tide lands, but, on the contrary, that its policy has always been to retain them for the benefit of the future state in, which they might lie. But it is thoroughly settled that the United States has all the power of national and municipal government over its territories, and may, if it sees fit to do so, grant rights in or titles to the tide lands of its territories as well as the public lands therein situated above high-water mark. Shively v. Bowlby, 152 U.S. 1 , 14 S.Ct. 548 , 38 L.Ed. 331 , and the numerous cases there cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The prohibition contained in the act of . 1884 against the disturbance of the use or possession of any Indian or other person of any land in Alaska claimed by them is sufficiently general and comprehensive to include tide lands as well as lands above high-water mark. Nor is it surprising that congress, in first dealing with the then sparsely settled country, was disposed to protect its few inhabitants in the possession of lands, of whatever character, by means of which they eked out their hard and precarious existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘■Tliat the Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in use or occupation or now claimed by them imt the terms under which such persons may acquire title to said lands is reserved for future legislation by Congress.””
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.