United States v. Denver & R. G. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
31 F. 886 · 1887
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1974
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Railway Company v. Alling Denver and Rio Grande Railway 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a standard dictionary an illustration of the larger meaning of the word is given in this form: Things are adjacent when they lie near to each other without actually touching; as adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. It seems unreasonable to say that in this connection the word refers to the government subdivisions lying next to the right of way; and, if we should so declare, it would be difficult to point out what subdivisions are meant. Accepting the larger meaning of the word, the right to take timber from public lands under these acts extends naturally some distance from the right of way, and probably within ordinary transportation by wagon.””
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.