United States v. Missouri K T Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 358 · 1891
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1962 · most notably United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1897), Payne v. Central Pacific Railway Co. (1921)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. San Jacinto Tin Co. · United States v. Beebe · Wisconsin Cent Co v. Price County · Hastings Co v. Whitney · St Paul Co v. Northern Pac R Co
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And it may now be accepted as settled that the United States can properly proceed by bill in equity to have a judicial decree of nullity and an order of cancellation of a patent issued in mistake, or obtained by fraud, where tho government has a direct interest, or is under an obligation respecting the relief invoked.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the consiruclion of land grant acts in aid of railroads, there is n well-established distinction observed between ‘granted lands’ and ‘indemnity lands.’ The former are ¡hose falling within the limits specially designated, and the title to which attaches .when the lands are located by an approved and accepted survey of the line of the road tiled in the hand Department as of the date of the act of Congress. The latter are those lands selected in lieu of parcels lost by previous disposition or reservation for other purposes, and the title to which accrues only from the time of their selection.””
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.