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135 U.S. 641 · 1890

Citation profile

578
cited by 578 later decisions
92
cited 92 times by the Supreme Court
20
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

176 federal appellate · 60 district · 77 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 578 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City (1985), Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974)

176 federal appellate · 60 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 20 states

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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 United States v. Kagama · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia · Kohl v. United States

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 578 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'reasonable, certain and adequate provision for obtaining compensation'”
    19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sweet v. Rechel · Dames & Moore v. Regan
  2. “deposit (or bond) is less than the final compensation awarded, and the company fails to pay the difference within a reasonable time, 'it will become a trespasser, and liable to be proceeded against as such'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Transcon. Gas Pipe Line Co. v. 6.04 Acres · Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC v. Gail Brandon Cochran
  3. “[t]he fact that [a property owner] holds the[ ] lands in fee-simple under patents from the [government] is of no consequence”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re: Condemnation by PennDOT, of Right-Of-Way for SR 0022 in the Twp. of Frankstown Stewart M. Merritts, Jr. v. PennDOT · Jordan v. Goldman

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.