Catholic Bishop of Nesqually v. Gibbon’s Empirical Analysis
158 U.S. 155 · 1895
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Cameron v. United States (1920), Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1914)
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Knight v. United Land Ass'n · Johnson v. Towsley · Steel v. St Louis Smelting Refining · Shepley v. Cowan
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While there may be no specific reference in the act of 1848 of questions arising under this grant to the land department, yet its administration comes within the scope of the general powers vested in that department. ... It may be laid down as a general .rule that, in the absence of some specific provision to the contrary in respect to any particular grant of public land, its administration falls wholly and absolutely within the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. It is not necessary that with each grant there shall go a direction that its administration shall be under the authority of the land department. It falls there unless there is express direction to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the title to the land, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, now occupied as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in said territories, together with the improvements thereon, he confirmed and established in the several religious societies to which said missionary stations resoectively belong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. Morris““While there may' be no specific reference in the act of 1848 of questions arising under this grant to the land department, yet its administration comes within the scope of the general powers vested in that department.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnston v. Morris
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.