Minneapolis St Paul Sault Ste Marie Railway Company v. Thomas Doughty’s Empirical Analysis
208 U.S. 251 · 1908
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Payne v. Central Pacific Railway Co. (1921), Stalker v. Oregon Short Line Railroad (1912)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad · Jamestown & Northern Railroad v. Jones · Railway Company v. Alling Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company · Sioux City St v. Chicago M St P Ry Co Chicago M St P R 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That any railroad company desiring to secure the benefits of this act shall, within twelve months after the location of any section of twenty miles of its road, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and, if upon unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof by the United States, file with the register of the land office for the district where such land is located a profile of its road; and upon approval thereof by the_Secretary of the Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office; and thereafter all such lands over which such right of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right of way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the right of way through the public lands of the United States is hereby granted to any railroad company * * * which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization, * * * to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ruling gives a practical operation to the statute, and we think is correct. It enables the railroad company to secure the grant by an actual construction of its road, or in advance of construction by filing a map as provided in section four. Actual construction is certainly unmistakable evidence and notice of appropriation.”
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.