Dickson v. Luck Land Co.’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 371 · 1917
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 11 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008 · most notably Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States (1939), South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc. (1986)
14 federal appellate · 11 district · 24 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
reviewedLuck Land Co. v. Dickson
Relationships
Relies on Steel v. St Louis Smelting Refining · Luck Land Co. v. Dickson
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With those restrictions [of Congress] entirely removed and the fee simple issued it would seem that the situation was one in which all questions pertaining to the disposal of the lands naturally would fall within the scope and operation of the laws of the State”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no mention of his age in the patent, and yet it must be taken as impliedly containing a finding that he was then an adult. This is so, because, every patent for public or Indian lands carries with it an implied affirmation or finding of every fact made a prerequisite to its issue, and because the provision in the act of 1907 made the majority of the allottee a prerequisite to the issue of this patent.””
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.