United States v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
175 U.S. 60 · 1899
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably Agueda Benedicto De La Rama v. Esteban De La Rama (1906), Charleston Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Alderson (1945)
10 federal appellate · 8 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 Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Maxwell Land-Grant Case · Wright v. Roseberry · Doolan v. Carr · Ryan v. Carter
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any effect other or further than as a release of all claim of title by the United States,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The manifest intent of Congress appears to have been that with any land, of- the right to which Congress, in the exercise of its lawful discretion, had itself assumed the decision, the Court of Private Land Claims should have nothing to do. The whole jurisdiction conferred upon that court is to confirm or reject claims presented to it, coming within the act. All the powers conferred upon it are incident to the exercise of that jurisdiction. When it has no jurisdiction to confirm or reject, it has no authority to inquire into or pass upon the case, beyond the decision of the question of jurisdiction. The peremptory declaration of Congress, that 'no claim shall be allowed for any land, the right to which has hitherto been lawfully acted upon and decided by Congress,’ necessarily prohibits the court from .passing upon the merits of any such claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the title has once been confirmed by Congress it should be respected by the Court of Private Land Claims as if it were a confirmation by the court itself, and conflicting claimants are at liberty to resort to the ordinary remedies at law or in equity, according to the nature of the claim.””
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.