William Plested v. Samuel a Abbey J’s Empirical Analysis
228 U.S. 42 · 1913
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1944 · most notably Gnerich v. Rutter (1924), Myers v. International Trust Co. (1923)
13 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · Maxwell v. Dow · Knight v. United Land Ass'n
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““upon Hue ground that a ruling or decision by the officers ot a local land office of the United States made in the usual course of proceedings for the acquisition of the title to public lands is not subject to review or correction in the courts while the title to the lands remains in the United States, and also upon the further ground that while the title to public lands remains in the United States and the proceedings for acquiring that title are still in fieri, the courts are without power, by injunction or otherwise, to eoirtrol the judgment and discretion of the officers of the Uand Department in respect of the disposal of such lands under the public: land laws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cameron v. Weedin
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.