McCurdy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 484 · 1924
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Mason (1973), West v. Oklahoma Tax Commission (1948)
17 federal appellate · 4 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
reviewedUnited States v. McCurdy (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Rickert · Gibson v. Chouteau · The Kansas Indians · Calumet Grain Elevator Company v. City of Chicago · Lykins v. McGrath
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The doctrine of relation gives effect to an act done at one time as if it had been done at another. It is a legal fiction adopted by courts solely for purposes of justice — to avoid denial or loss of right, but not to impose burdens”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The surplus lands shall be nontaxable for the period of three years from the approval of this act, except where certificates of competency are issued or in case of the death of the allottee, unless otherwise provided by Congress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoskins v. Abbott““All deeds . . . shall be executed by the principal chief for the ■ Osages, but no such deeds shall be valid until approved by the Secretary of the Interior.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoskins v. Abbott
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.