Lane v. Darlington’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 331 · 1919
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1994 · most notably United States v. State Investment Co. (1924), West v. Standard Oil Co. (1929)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · New Orleans v. Paine · Lane v. United States ex rel. Mickadiet · Litchfield v. The Register and Receiver · Northern Pacific Railway Company _____ v. United States of America
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After the land officers shall have disposed of the question, if any legal right of plaintiff has been invaded, he may seek redress in the courts. He insists that he now has the legal title. * * * If they give patents to the applicants for pre-emption, the courts can then in the appropriate proceeding determine who has the better title or right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mickadiet v. Payne“cannot affect the rights of owners on the other side of the line already existing.”
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.