McLaren v. Fleischer’s Empirical Analysis
256 U.S. 477 · 1921
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Udall v. Tallman (1965)
97 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 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 Logan v. Davis · Brown v. United States · Webster v. Luther · Oklahoma v. Texas
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“-» * [T]he practical construction given to an act of Congress, fairly susceptible of different constructions, by those charged with the duty of executing it is entitled to great respect and, if acted upon for a number of years, will not be disturbed except for cogent reasons. [Footnote omitted.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Sec. 2. In all cases where any person has. contested, paid the land office fees, and procured the cancellation of any pre-emption, homestead, or timber-culture entry, he shall be notified by the register of the land office of the district, in which such land is situated of such cancellation, ,and shall be allowed thirty days from date of such notice to enter said lands: Provided, That said register shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar for the giving of such notice, to be paid by the contestant and not to be reported: Provided further, That should any such person who has initiated a contest die before the final termination of the same, said contest shall not abate by reason thereof, but his heirs who are citizens of the United States, may continue the prosecution under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and said heirs shall be entitled to the same rights under this act that contestant would have been if his death had not occurred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Bodkin“are neither authoritative nor persuasive.”
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.