United States v. Title Ins & Trust Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992), 101 Ill. 2d 246 - Housing Authority for La Salle County v. Young Men's Christian Ass'n (1984)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Railroad Companies v. Schutte · Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Mason City Fort Dodge Railroad Company · Allejandro Barker v. Downey · Minnesota Company v. National Company
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But it is urged that what we have described as ruled there was obiter dictum and should be disregarded, because the Court there gave a second ground for its decision wnich. was broad enough to sustain it independently of the first ground. The premise of the contention is right but the conclusion is wrong; for where there are two grounds, upon either of which an appellate court may rest its decision, and it adopts both, “the ruling on neither is obiter, but each is the judgment of the court and of equal validity with the other.” Union Pacific R. R. Co. v. Mason City & Fort Dodge R. R. Co., 199 U. R. 160, 166; Railroad Companies v. Schutle, 103 U. S. 118, 143 .”
3 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.