Johnson v. Ballou’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1968
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That the lands hereby granted to said State shall be disposed of by said State only in manner following, that is to say: That a quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections for each of said roads, and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of each of said roads, may be sold ; and, when the Governor of said State shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that any twenty' continuous miles of any of said roads is completed, then another quantity of land hereby granted, not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections of each of said roads having twenty continuous miles completed as aforesaid, and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of each of said roads, maj be sold; and so, from time to time, until said roads are completed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ The quantity covered by this conveyance was about seven thousand acres, equivalent to about eleven sections, and there was no evidence in the case that further conveyances had been made by the company.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ That the said lands hereby granted to the said State shall be subject to the disposal of the Legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid, and no other.””
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.