United States of America v. Bitter Root Development Company’s Empirical Analysis
200 U.S. 451 · 1906
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 38 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1985 · most notably Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co. (1933), Schoenthal v. Irving Trust Co. (1932)
91 federal appellate · 38 district · 20 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. Bitter Root Development Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Wakelee · Scott v. Neely · Byers v. McAuley · Payne v. Hook · Root v. Railway 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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary to cite many authorities for the proposition that where the main cause of action is of a legal nature, equity has no jurisdiction, provided the complainant has full and adequate remedy at law for the wrongs complained of. ^ * sfc “Those persons who were guilty of the wrong must be made parties in either court, in order to bind them. Such alleged multiplicity is not avoided in one court more than in the other.””
3 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.