Strickley v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
200 U.S. 527 · 1906
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 20 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States (1917)
38 federal appellate · 20 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
Relationships
Relies on Munn v. Illinois · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. · Clark v. Nash
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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In discussing what constitutes a public use, it recognized the inadequacy of use by the general public as a universal test.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The cultivation and irrigation of the soil, the production and reduction of ores, are of vital necessity to the people of the State of Utah; are pursuits in which all are interested and from which all derive a benefit; and the use and application of the unappropriated waters of the natural streams and water courses of the State to the generation of electrical force or energy to be employed in industrial pursuits are of great public benefit and utility. So irrigation of land, the mining, milling, smelting or other reduction of ores, and such use and application of such waters for the generation of electrical power to be employed as aforesaid are hereby declared to be for the public use, and the right of eminent domain may be exercised in behalf thereof.” c. 95, §. 1, Laws of Utah, 1896.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“exceptional times and places in which the very foundations of public welfare could not be laid without requiring concessions from individuals to each other upon due compensation which under other circumstances would be left wholly to voluntary consent.”
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.