State v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2010
1 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 471 · 16 U.S.C. § 473 · 16 U.S.C. § 480 · 16 U.S.C. § 684 · 16 U.S.C. § 686
Relies on Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · James v. Dravo Contracting Co. · Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · McKelvey v. United States · Surplus Trading Co. v. Cook
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within national forests shall not be affected or changed by reason of their existence, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the United States therein is concerned; the intent and meaning of this provision being that the State wherein any such national forest is situated shall not, by reason of the establishment thereof, lose its jurisdiction, nor the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens, or be absolved from their duties as citizens of the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“over all places purchased by the United States with the consent of the legislature of the state where the place is located for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and”
2 later decisions 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.