Howe v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
190 F. 738 · 1911
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1930
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. Wiltberger · St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Johnson v. Towsley · Delaware Co v. Converse · Lake County v. Rollins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether or not the weight of evidence in substantial conflict sustains the one or the other side of an issue of'fact is a question upon which, in eases within his jurisdiction, the final decision of the Secretary of the Interior is conclusive, in the absence, of fraud or gross mistake. But whether or not there is at the close of a final trial or hearing before him any evidence to sustain a charge or a finding of fact in support of it is in his and in every judicial and quasi judicial tribunal a question of law. Ward v. Joslin, 186 U. S. 142 , 147, 22 Sup. Ct. 807 , 46 L. Ed. 1093 ; United States Fidelity & G. Co. v. Board of Com’rs, 145 Fed. 144 , 151, 76 C. C. A. 114 , 121; Laing v. Rigney, 160 U. S. 531 , 540, 16 Sup. Ct. 366 , 40 L. Ed. 525 ; Southern Pacific Co. v. Pool, 160 U. S. 438 , 440, 16 Sup. Ct. 338 , 40 L. Ed. 485 ; The Francis Wright, 105 U. S. 381 , 387, 26 L. Ed. 1100 ; Clement v. Insurance Co., 7 Blatchf. 51 , 53, 54, 58, Fed. Gas. No. 2,882; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. Co. v. Converse, 139 U. S. 469 , 472, 11 Sup. Ct. 569 , 35 L. Ed. 213 . And an injurious error of the Secretary in finally deciding that question presents good ground for relief in equity. The Band Department of the United States is a quasi judicial tribunal, invested with authority to hear and determine claims to the public lands subject to its disposition, and its decisions of the issues presented at such hearings are impervious to collateral attack. But its judgments and patents do n”
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.