Richardson v. Santiago Ainsa’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 289 · 1910
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1990 · most notably Sena v. American Turquoise Co. (1911), Moss v. Ramey (1916)
21 federal appellate · 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 Edye v. Robertson · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway Company · Newhall v. Sanger
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even grants which were complete at the time of the cession may be required by Congress to have their genuineness and their extent established by proceedings in a particular manner before they can be held to he valid. But, where no such proceedings are expressly required by Congress, the recognition of grants of this class in the treaty itself is sufficient to give them full effect. * * * The effect of these provisions of the act of 189-1 is that all prior acts-of Congress providing for the assertion, whether in a judicial tribunal or before a surveyor general and Congress, of either complete or incomplete Mexican grants, are repealed, except as to claims previously acted upon and decided by Congress or under its authority; that all incomplete claims against the United States, coming within the provisions of the act, must be presented to the Court of Private Lund Claims; that any one claiming land under a Mexican grant, which was complete and perfect at the time of the cession of sovereignty, ‘shall have the right (blit shall not be bound) to apply to said court,’ as in cases of incomplete grants. * * * The result is that the United States, by the act of 1891, have prescribed and defined the only method by which grants incomplete before the cession can be completed and made binding upon the United States, but have neither made it obligatory upon the owner of a title complete and perfect before the cession to resort to this method, nor declared that his title shall not bo vali”
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.