San Pedro & Cañon Del Agua Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
146 U.S. 120 · 1892
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1986 · most notably Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. (1937), United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1897)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Galliher v. Cadwell · United States v. San Jacinto Tin Co. · United States v. Beebe · Badger v. Badger · Sullivan v. Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that on appeal, instead of the evidence at large, a statement of the facts in the case in the nature of a special verdict, and also the rulings of the court on the admission or rejection of evidence, when excepted to, shall be made and certified by the court below, and transmitted to the Supreme •Court, together with a transcript of the proceedings and judgment or decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grayson v. Lynch
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.