United States v. St. Anthony Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
192 U.S. 524 · 1904
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert (1913), Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith (1915)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedUnited States v. St. Anthony R. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Stone v. United States · Bolles Wooden Ware Co v. United States · Pine River Logging Improvement Company v. United States · United States v. Denver R G Ry Co · Markham v. . Jaudon
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court concurred with the circuit court of appeals in adjudging the charge to be a sound interpretation of the act.” * * * Page 537 of 192 Ü. S., page 337 of 24 Sup. Ct. ( 48 L. Ed. 548 ). “We thus have the authority of this court that lands which are adjacent within the meaning of this act of 1875 must be lands in proximity, contiguous or near to the line of the road. While ‘proximity’ or ‘nearness’ to an object is somewhat uncertain as a measure of distance, yet the use of such words as a definition brings to the mind the idea that lands which are in fact far off, or distant, are not adjacent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the word ‘adjoining’ had been used instead of ‘adjacent,’ those sections touching the line of the road could be regarded as the adjoining lands, and when the word ‘adjacent’ instead of ‘adjoining’ is used, it might, not unnaturally, be said to include the next tier of sections away from the line of the road.” (United States v. St. Anthony R. R. Co., 192 U. S. 524, 538 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is very difficult to determine just where twilight ends and night begins, but it is easy enough to distinguish noon from midnight”
2 later decisions 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.