United States v. Laughlin’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 440 · 1919
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2005 · most notably United States v. Babcock (1919), Dismuke v. United States (1936)
31 federal appellate · 11 district ·
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
reviewedLaughlin v. United States
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hvoslef · Buttz v. Northern Pacific Railroad · McLean v. United States · Nelson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Northern Pac Co v. Sanders
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary that any person has made a payment under any statute relating to the sale, lease, use, or other disposition of public lands which is not required or is in excess of the amount required by applicable law and the regulations issued by the Secretary, the Secretary, upon application or otherwise, may cause a refund to be made from applicable funds.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ That in all cases where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that any person has heretofore or shall hereafter make any payments to the-United States under the public land laws in excess of the amount he was lawfully required to pay under such laws, such excess shall be repaid to such person or to his legal representatives.””
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.