Sprague v. Stead’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Bureau of Land Management (2005), Leach v. Manhart (1938)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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 McRose v. Bottyer · Montgomery v. Somers · Wallowa County v. Wade · Starr v. People · Van Wanning v. Deeter
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This was an express dedication for a right of way for a road over the land belonging to the government not reserved for public use. The acceptance of such grant while the land was a part of the public domain may be effected by public use. An appropriation in this manner is made with the consent of the owner previously given, and when confined to a reasonably certain and definite line creates an easement for the purposes of a highway, and subsequent entrymen and claimants take such land subject to that easement. Montgomery v. Somers, 50 Or. 259 , 90 Pac. 674 ; Murray v. City of Butte, 7 Mont. 61 , 14 Pac. 656 ; McRose v. Bottyer, 81 Cal. 122 , 22 Pac. 393 ; Bequette v. Patterson, 104 Cal. 282 , 37 Pac. 917 ; Wallowa County v. Wade, 43 Or. 253 , 72 Pac. 793 ; Van Wanning v. Deeter, 78 Neb. 284 , 112 N.W. 902 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right of way for the construction of highways over public lands not reserved for public'uses is hereby granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable certainty of limits and direction,”
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.