Lomax v. Pickering’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 26 · 1899
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably Ray Jones v. Patrick Meehan (1899), Lykins v. McGrath (1902)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 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 United States v. Schurz · Pickering v. Lomax · Bicknell v. Comstock · Tefft v. . Munson
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the approval of the first deed (which was the first approval) the title of Robinson, was wholly divested and there was nothing left upon which a subsequent approval could operate unless we are to assume that such subsequent approval in some way revested the title in Robinson and passed it to McClure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Canfield v. Jack““But never to be leased or conveyed by Mm, them, his or their heirs, to any person whatever, without the permission of the President of the United .States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shulthis v. McDougal““Even if this be not a construction of the state statute binding upon us, and decisive of the case, we regard it as a correct exposition of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shulthis v. McDougal
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.