Lakin v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
54 F. 461 · 1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Doolan v. Carr · Washington v. District of Columbia · Lakin v. Dolly
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The land department, therefore, had no power to issue a patent for a greater width of land than 300 feet, and the patent in,this ease in excess of 300 feet is void.””
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.