Allejandro Barker v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
181 U.S. 481 · 1901
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 16 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Lineas Winans (1905), State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1902)
46 federal appellate · 16 district · 16 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 Edye v. Robertson · Whitney v. Robertson · Newhall v. Sanger · Cherokee Tobacco · Bardon v. Northern Pac R Co
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If these Indians had any claims founded on the action of the Mexican government they abandoned them by not presenting them to the commission for consideration ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'subject to sale or other disposal under general laws.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Article X. All grants of land made by the Mexican Government or by the competent authorities, in territories previously appertaining to Mexico, and remaining for the future within the limits of the United States, shall be respected as valid, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid, if the said territories had remained within the limits of Mexico. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.