Andrus v. Utah’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 9 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Papasan v. Allain (1986), Forest Conservation Council v. United States Forest Service (1995)
31 federal appellate · 9 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedState of Utah v. Kleppe (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Babich v. United States · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Shapiro v. Thompson · Lassen v. Arizona Ex Rel. Arizona Highway Department
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“binding and perpetual obligation to use the granted lands for the support of public education.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“That upon the admission of said State into the Union, sections numbered two, sixteen, thirty-two, and thirty-six in every township of said proposed State, and where such sections or any parts thereof have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any Act of Congress other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter section and as contiguous as may be to the section in lieu of which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said State for the support of common schools, such indemnity lands to be selected within said State in such manner as the legislature may provide, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interi- or....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools within the said township ...”
4 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.