Northern Pac. R. v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
47 F. 604 · 1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1954
5 federal appellate ·
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 Neal v. Clark · United States v. Moore · St Paul Co v. Northern Pac R Co · Charles Williamson and Catharine His Wife v. Joseph Berry · Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Dunmeyer
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.
““That the president of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width, on both sides of the entire line of said road after the general route shall be fixed; and the odd sections hereby granted shall not be hable to sale or entry, or pre-emption before or after they are surveyed, except by said comptmy, as provided in this act.””
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.