United States v. 2,847.58 Acres of Land, More or Less’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 682 · 1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2022
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Olson v. United States · United States v. Sowards · Welch v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Allen · United States v. 79.95 Acres of Land, More or Less
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law of evidence ... favors a broad rule of admissibility and is designed to permit the admission of all evidence which is relevant and material to the issues in controversy, unless there is a sound and practical reason for excluding it.”
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.