Bean v. W a Morris’s Empirical Analysis
221 U.S. 485 · 1911
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1977 · most notably State of Arizona v. State of California (1963), Cuba Railroad v. Crosby (1912)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBean v. Morris (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on State of Kansas v. State of Colorado · State of Missouri v. State of Illinois · Rickey Land Cattle Company v. Miller & Lux Rickey Land & Cattle Company · Smith v. Denniff
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘Other matters adverted to in argument, so far as not disposed of by what we have said, have been dealt with sufficiently in two courts. It is enough here to say that we are satisfied with their discussion and confine our own to the only matter that warranted a certiorari or suggested questions that might be grave.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The doctrine of appropriation has prevailed in these ■ regions probably from the first moment that they knew of any law, and has continued since they became territory of the United States.””
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.