The United Statess v. The City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
48 U.S. 185 · 1849
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1941 · most notably Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States (1917), Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois (1892)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · The President Recorder and Trustees of the City of Cincinnati v. The Lessee of Edward White · The Mayor Aldermen v. The United States · Livingston v. Mayor · Henderson v. Moore
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not questioned that land within a state, purchased by the United States as a mere proprietor, and not reserved or appropriated to any special purpose, may bo liable to condemnation for streets or highways, like the land of other proprietors, under the rights of eminent domain. Cut that was not the condition of this quarter section, being a part of the land originally ceded to the United States as the Northwest Territory, and afterwards specially set apart !! * * for military purposes. Here the opening of these streets would also injure, if not destroy, the great objects of the reservation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is entirely unsupported by principle or . precedent, that an agent,- merely by protracting on the plan those streets into the reserved- line and. amidst lands not sold, nor meant then to be sold, but expressly reserved, coyld deprive the United States of its title to real estate, and to its important public works.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because streets had been laid down on.the plan by the agent [Birchard] part of which'extended into the land not sold, those parts had, by this alone, become dedicated as highways and the United States had become estopped to object,”
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.