Burfenning v. Chicago St P M O Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
163 U.S. 321 · 1896
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 10 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1970 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), United States v. Ju Toy (1905)
33 federal appellate · 10 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 · Wright v. Roseberry
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is also equally true that when by act of Congress a tract of land has-been reserved from homestead and pre-emption, or dedicated to any special purpose, proceedings in the Land Department in defiance of such reservation or dedication, although culminating in a patent, transfer no title and may be-challenged in an action at law. In other words, the action of the Land Department cannot override the expressed will of Congress, or convey away public lands in disregard or defiance thereof” — citing several cases from the-federal Supreme Court.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It will be observed that the records disclosed that the-lands were saline lands when the proceedings in the Land Department were had. So the case was not one in which the department determined a fact upon parol evidence,, but one in which it acted in disregard of an established and recorded fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the limits of any incorporated town.”
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.