Johnson v. Drew’s Empirical Analysis
171 U.S. 93 · 1898
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1969 · most notably Phillips v. Commissioner (1931), Phillips v. Commissioner (1931)
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 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 · 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is any one thing respecting the administra tion of the public lands which must be considered as settled by repeated adjudications of this court, it is that the decision of the land department upon mere questions of fact is, in the absence of fraud or deceit, conclusive, and such questions cannot thereafter be relitigated in the courts.””
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.