Prosser v. Finn’s Empirical Analysis
208 U.S. 67 · 1908
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1989 · most notably United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co. (1961), Frank Waskey v. Joseph Hammer (1912)
9 federal appellate · 9 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 Stark v. Starrs · Cornelius v. Kessel · United States v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad · Bernier v. Bernier · Silver v. Ladd
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indirectly purchasing or becoming interested in the purchase of any of the public land”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Dickson · Webb v. Hodel
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.