Niles v. Cedar Point Club’s Empirical Analysis
175 U.S. 300 · 1899
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 11 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably United States v. State of Minnesota (1926), Scott v. Lattig (1913)
46 federal appellate · 11 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hardin v. Jordan · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · McCready v. Virginia · Michigan Land & Lumber Co. v. Rust
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is urged that the fact that a meander line was run amounts to a determination by the land department that the surveyed fractional sections bordered upon a body of water. But there is no such magic in a meander line. All that can be said about it is that it is an irregular line which bounds a body of land, beyond which there may be found forest, prairie, land or water, government or Indian reservations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no such magic in a meandered line. All that can be said of it is that it is an irregular line which bounds a body of land, and beyond that boundary there may be found forest or prairie, land or water, government or Indian reservation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lattig v. Scott“. . . no further than such particular circumstances require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ritter v. Morton
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.