Washington Securities Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 76 · 1914
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1940 · most notably United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. (1926), Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks (1930)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
reviewedWashington Securities Co. v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. Doran · McCaskill Company v. United States · United States v. Minor · Stuart v. Hayden · Diamond Coal Coke Company v. United States
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended also that the proceedings resulting in the patents were not ex parte, but adversary; that the land officers found the lands to be agricultural in character, and that this finding was conclusive upon the government. No doubt those officers found from the proofs submitted to them that the lands were agricultural and not coal lands, for that was a prerequisite to issuing the patents; but the proceedings were not adversary in any true sense of the term. The applications and proofs of the entrymen were strictly ex parte. The government was not called upon to make any adverse showing, no issue was framed, no hearing was had, and no one represented the government save in the sense that the land officers did so. As this court has often held, the findings of the land officers in such a proceeding, although not open to collateral attack, are not conclusive against the government when it sues to cancel the resulting patent upon the ground that it was obtained by means of false and fraudulent proofs. United States v. Minor, 114 U. S, 233 [ 5 Sup. Ct. 836 , 29 L. Ed. 110 ]; McCaskill Co. v. United States, 216 U. S. 504 , 509 | 30 Sup. Ct. 386 , 54 L. Ed. 590 ], and cases cited. In such a suit the action of the land officers is given appropriate effect by treating it as presumptively right and as requiring, the-government to carry the burden of proving tiie fraud by that class of evidence which commands respect and that amount of it which produces conviction. Diamond Coal ”
2 later decisions 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.