Anicker v. Gunsburg’s Empirical Analysis
246 U.S. 110 · 1918
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably United States v. Navajo Nation (2003), Hodgson v. Federal Oil & Development Co. (1927)
18 federal appellate · 6 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
reviewedAnicker v. Gunsburg (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge · Pickering v. Lomax · Bohall v. Dilla · United States ex rel. West v. Hitchcock · Lomax v. Pickering
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to maintain a suit of this sort the complainant must establish not only that the action of the Secretary was wrong in approving the other lease, but that the complainant was himself entitled to an approval of his lease, and that it was refused to him because of an erroneous ruling of law by the Secretary.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All leases * * * shall be in writing and subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior and shall be absolutely void and of no effect without such approval.” 34 Stat. 145 , § 20.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Sinclair
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.