Feather River Lumber Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.2d 642 · 1929
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2018
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Fleischmann Const Co v. United States · McCaskill Company v. United States · New York Life Ins. v. Dunlevy · Dunsmuir v. Scott · United Verde Copper Co. v. Jordan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to young growth, while the measure of damages in such a case is ordinarily the difference in the value of the land before and after the fire, here, there being no law to authorize the sale of the lands injured by the fire, the trial court admitted such evidence as was available to show the damage actually sustained, that is to say, what was required to make the government whole, and this, we think, might properly include the cost of restoring the land to the condition in which it was before the fire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the measure of damages was the (market) value of the trees.”
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.