United States v. Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 1 · 1935
Citation profile
165 federal appellate · 39 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 489 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Montana v. United States (1981), Block v. North Dakota Board of University and School Lands North Dakota Board of University and School Lands (1983)
165 federal appellate · 39 district · 123 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · Shively v. Bowlby · The Daniel Ball · Hardin v. Jordan · United States v. Holt State Bank
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 489 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as incident to the transfer to the State of local sovereignty,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The construction of grants by the United States is a federal not a state question * * * and involves the consideration of state questions only in so far as it may be determined as a matter of federal law that the United States has impliedly adopted and assented to a state rule of construction as applicable to its conveyances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A bill to quiet title may not be defeated by showing that the plaintiff's interest, otherwise sufficient to support the bill, is subject to possibly superior rights in third persons not parties to the suit.”
2 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.