Menotti v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
167 U.S. 703 · 1897
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1933 · most notably Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1914), Payne v. Central Pacific Railway Co. (1921)
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Dunmeyer · United States v. Southern Pacific Railroad · Northern Pac Co v. Sanders · Bullard v. Des Moines & Fort Dodge Railroad
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said that the railroad company filed its map of general route on the 8th day of December, 18G4, and that, these lands having been withdrawn from, pre-emption, private entry, and sale by the executive order of January 30, 1865, they were not embraced by the act of 1866. In our opinion this is not a proper interpretation of that act. The proviso of the first section distinctly indicates certain cases to which the act should not apply; and, distinctly excluding those cases, but no others, from its operation, the act, in express-words, confirmed to the state, ‘in all cases,’ lands which the state had theretofore selected in satisfaction of any grant by Congress and sold to purchasers in good faith under its laws.””
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.