United States v. Morehead’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 607 · 1917
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States (1920), Georgia v. United States (1973)
84 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 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 Williamson v. United States · Caha v. United States · Dealy v. United States · United States v. William George
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The filing of a declaratory statement is not a necessary step in acquiring title to land.” It secures only “a preferential right to acquire, under the homestead law, the particular tract located on.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shanks v. Lane““The claimant in person shall within the time prescribed make his actual entry, commence settlements and improvements on the same,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shanks v. Lane
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.