Amelia Holt v. Samuel Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
207 U.S. 407 · 1908
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Work v. Braffet (1928), Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Richter (1915)
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Galliher v. Cadwell · Johnston v. Standard Mining Co. · Colorado Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · Gwillim v. Donnellan · Peter Wagner v. John Baird
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That, wherever an entry has been made of a tract of land, that tract is segregated from the mass o.f public lands subject to entry until the existing entry is disposed of.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent confusion and conflict of claims.”
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.