Denny v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
32 F. 899 · 1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1964
1 federal appellate · 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 Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Schulenberg v. Harriman · Wright v. Roseberry · Railroad Company v. Baldwin · Buttz v. Northern Pacific Railroad
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The subsequent issue of the patent by the United States was not essential •to the right of the company to those parcels, although in many respects they would have been of great service to it. They would have served to identify the land as coterminous with the road completed. They would have been evidence that the grantee had complied with the conditions of the grant, and to ‘that extent that the grant was relieved of possibility of forfeiture for breach of them. They would have obviated the necessity of any other evidence of the grantee’s right to the lánds, and they would have been evidence that the lands were subject to the disposal of the railroad company with the consent of the government. They would have been in these respects deeds of further assurance of the patentee’s title, and therefore a source of quiet and peace to it in its possessions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And the odd sections of land hereby granted shall not be liable to sale or entry or pre-emption before or after they are surveyed, except by said company, as provided in this act. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The present title here mentioned is a legal title, as distinguished from an equitable or inchoate interest arising upon a contract or promise of the government. The words • there be, and is hereby, granted ’ are not words of contract or promise, but, as said in the citations, are words of absolute donation; that is, they transfer a present legal righttothe sections designated, which become attached to them specifically whenever they are identified.””
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.