United States v. Southern Pacific Co.’s Empirical Analysis
251 U.S. 1 · 1919
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2004 · most notably Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. v. United States (1927), Wyoming v. United States (1921)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
reviewedSouthern Pac. Co. v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. San Jacinto Tin Co. · Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad · Southern Development Co of Nevada v. Silva · Deffeback v. Hawke · Chrisman v. Miller
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By this we mean that the known conditions at that time were such as real sonably to engender the belief that the lands contained oil of such quality and in such quantity as would render its extraction profitable and justify expenditures to that end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.