Crespin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 208 · 1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1969 · most notably Hayes v. United States (1898), United States v. Pena (1899)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · United States v. Juan Percheman · Hart v. Burnett · Strother v. Lucas · John Charles Fremont 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If there be any hardship to the petitioners in the rejection of this grant, they must apply for relief to another department of the Government. ¥e are bound by the language of the act creating the Court of Private Land Claims.””
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.