Stoneroad v. Stoneroad’s Empirical Analysis
158 U.S. 240 · 1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983 · most notably Arizona v. California (1983), Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los Angeles (1935)
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Knight v. United Land Ass'n · Cragin v. Powell · The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · Botiller v. Dominguez · Colin Mitchel Robert v. The 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The commissioner of the general land office shall perform, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of the government.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gauthier v. Morrison
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.